tractate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.

Noun

tractate (plural tractates)

1. A treatise.

Related terms

• tract
• treatise
• treaty

Translations

treatise

• Aramaic: מַסֶּכְתָּא
• Dutch: verhandeling (nl)
• Russian: тракта́т (ru) m (traktát)
• Swedish: traktat (sv) c

Latin

Verb

tractāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tractō

References

• tractate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)