tractate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.
Noun edit
tractate (plural tractates)
- A treatise.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
treatise
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Latin edit
Verb edit
tractāte
References edit
- 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)