tractor
トラクター
解説 Definition
トラクターという意味です。日本語の「トラクター」とほぼ同じで、畑を耕したり重いものを引いたりする農業用の車両を指します。
A tractor is a powerful motor vehicle designed mainly to pull agricultural machinery, trailers, or other heavy equipment. It is commonly used for farming tasks such as plowing fields.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
tractor は「引く」を核に持つラテン語系の tract と、「〜するもの」を示す -or を結び付けて、「農具や重い機械を引くもの」と覚えましょう。drive a tractor「トラクターを運転する」、a tractor pulls equipment「農機具を引く」、tractor in a field「畑のトラクター」という典型場面が意味と語形成を直接つなぎます。
Focus on the idea of pulling. Tractor is historically connected with the Latin root seen in words involving drawing or pulling, while -or often marks a thing that performs an action. A tractor is therefore a powerful vehicle whose central job is to pull: imagine one drawing a plow or heavy equipment across a field. Learn it with practical combinations such as drive a tractor, a tractor pulls equipment, and a tractor in the field. This distinguishes it from a general truck, which mainly carries goods, although both vehicles may tow trailers in some situations.
例文
The farmer drives a tractor every morning.
その農家の人は毎朝トラクターを運転します。
A red tractor stood near the field.
赤いトラクターが畑の近くに止まっていました。
This tractor can pull heavy equipment.
このトラクターは重い機械を引くことができます。
tractor の類義語・関連語
tractor の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 trahere（引く）の過去分詞 tractus に由来し、「引っ張るもの」が原義。農機具として重い荷や農具を引いて動かす車両を指す。関連語：attract（引きつける）、extract（引き出す）。「引く力」がこの語の核心である。
Tractor comes from a Latin agent noun related to trahere, “to draw or pull,” through its past-participle stem tract-. The literal idea is “something that pulls.” English used the word for pulling mechanisms before it became the standard name for a powered agricultural vehicle in the early twentieth century. Its function still reflects the original sense: a tractor supplies pulling power for plows, trailers, and other equipment. Attract, extract, and traction share the same Latin root but developed different specialized meanings.
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