distractor
Meaningsomething that pulls apart
Common meaning: a wrong option meant to draw attention away
- disapart, away; not
- tractto pull, dragLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1885 · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
‘apart, away’ + ‘to pull, drag’ → distractor
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin trahō ‘to pull, drag’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry trahō, p. 1885 · dictionary scan
Roots
- trahō, trāxī, tractum Latin “to pull, drag”
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