# tractile

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈtɹæktaɪl/

## Definitions
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. Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid.

## 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”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tractile