tractile

Meaning

1. Capable of being drawn or stretched out in length.
2. Pertaining to traction or pulling.
3. Capable of being guided, influenced, or led.
4. (obsolete) Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid.

Synonyms

malleable

ductile

pliant

pliable

tensile

tractable

prolongable

Translations

ελατός

επεκτατός

ductile

malléable

souple

maleável

dúctil

çekilebilir

çekilip uzar

Hyphenated as

tract‧ile

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹæktaɪl/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin tractilis (“that can be dragged or pulled”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’). Tractilis is derived from Latin tractus + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives from the perfect passive participles of verbs); and tractus is the perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag, pull; to draw out, extend, lengthen, prolong”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”).