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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Festus|origins=itc-pro *traxe/o-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɪn.tra.(ɦ)oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈin.tra.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''intrahō''' (present infinitive intrahere, perfect active intrāxī, supine intractum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|in-|trahō|t2=to drag]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨trahō⟩ as [[itc-pro|*traxe/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Festus glosses it as “to hurl an insult”, a reading the TLL calls doubtful.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Lewis & Short call the sense “to drag along” post-Augustan, citing Apuleius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Apuleius c. 125–175 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Apuleius has ''gressūs intrahere'' “to drag one's steps”, and it also meant to draw on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of dragging the steps.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To drag along, [[m|en|trail]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To draw on.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[intractiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abstrahō]]
+ * [[attrahō]]
+ * [[circumtrahō]]
+ * [[contrahō]]
+ * [[dētrahō]]
+ * [[distrahō]]
+ * [[extrahō]]
+ * [[intertrahō]]
+ * [[obtrahō]]
+ * [[pertrahō]]
+ * [[trahō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}