tractor

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæktɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

tractor (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
2. (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
3. (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
4. Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
5. (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
6. (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
   • 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe‎^[1] (Usenet):

     On the other hand the EE type 3's have offered in a 1750 hp package, probably the most successful loco BR bought. As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.

   • 2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway‎^[2] (Usenet):

     With a recent email from Mike Tetlow, I found out that there were two other 37s [37252 and 37031] present that day, also shuttling between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.

   • 2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway‎^[3] (Usenet):

     EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!

7. (archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

• (aviation): pusher
• (agriculture): traction engine

tractor (third-person singular simple present tractors, present participle tractoring, simple past and past participle tractored)

1. (transitive, agriculture) To prepare (land) with a tractor.
2. (intransitive) To drive a tractor.
3. (transitive, science fiction) To move with a tractor beam.
4. (transitive, medicine, archaic) To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus + the suffix -or.

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾakˈtoɾ]

tractor m (plural tractors)

1. (agriculture) tractor (farm vehicle)

• treure

• “tractor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tractor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “tractor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tractor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English tractor.

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tractor m (plural tractoren or tractors, diminutive tractortje n)

1. tractor (agricultural vehicle)

   Synonym: trekker

• → Caribbean Javanese: trèktor, plèktor

tractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of tractō

• "tractor", 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)

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of trator. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from French tracteur.

tractor n (plural tractoare)

1. tractor

Borrowed from English tractor, formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: trac‧tor

tractor (feminine tractora, masculine plural tractores, feminine plural tractoras)

1. driving

tractor m (plural tractores)

1. tractor

• “tractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English tractor.

tractor m (plural tractorau or tractors)

1. tractor

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tractor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies