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Train comes from Middle English trayne, from Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’, from trainer ‘to draw’, ultimately from Latin trahō ‘to pull’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō¹‘to pull, to draw’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*tragō¹reconstructed
3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*traginō¹reconstructed
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400trainer¹‘to pull out, to draw’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400train¹‘a delay, a drawing out’
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500trayne¹‘train’
7. Englishearliest quotation 1530train¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English train
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1530, Of the Verbe: “[I]t pleaſed the grekes at that tyme to ſe…”.