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)
- a treatise
Related terms
Translations
treatise
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Latin
Verb
tractāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of tractō
References
- tractate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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