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tractile

trac·tile

UK/ˈtɹæktaɪl/ US/-tl̩/ uncommon dated obsolete rare

adjective

1.

capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

  • “ductile copper”
  • “malleable metals such as gold”
  • “they soaked the leather to made it pliable”
  • “pliant molten glass”
  • “made of highly tensile steel alloy”
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Origin

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”).

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