tractim

Latin

Etymology

From trahō (“drag”) +‎ -tim.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪ɪ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtrak.tim/, [ˈt̪räkt̪im]

Adverb

tractim (not comparable)

(poetic) little by little, by degrees; at length, slowly

References

“tractim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
tractim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
tractim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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