tractatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of tractō.

Participle

tractātus (feminine tractāta, neuter tractātum); first/second-declension participle

1. tugged, dragged, hauled
2. handled, managed
3. exercised, practised, transacted, performed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tractātus	tractāta	tractātum		tractātī	tractātae	tractāta
Genitive	tractātī	tractātae	tractātī		tractātōrum	tractātārum	tractātōrum
Dative	tractātō		tractātō		tractātīs
Accusative	tractātum	tractātam	tractātum		tractātōs	tractātās	tractāta
Ablative	tractātō	tractātā	tractātō		tractātīs
Vocative	tractāte	tractāta	tractātum		tractātī	tractātae	tractāta

Derived terms

• intrāctātus

Noun

tractātus m (genitive tractātūs); fourth declension

1. touching, handling, working
2. management, treatment
3. treatise, tract
4. sermon, homily

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tractātus	tractātūs
Genitive	tractātūs	tractātuum
Dative	tractātuī	tractātibus
Accusative	tractātum	tractātūs
Ablative	tractātū	tractātibus
Vocative	tractātus	tractātūs

Descendants

• Asturian: tratáu
• → Bulgarian: трактат (traktat)
• Catalan: tractat
• → Czech: traktát
• → Danish: traktat
• Esperanto: traktato
• → English: tractate
• → Finnish: traktaatti
• Friulian: tratât
• Galician: tratado
• → German: Traktat
  • → Russian: трактат (traktat)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: трактат
• Haitian Creole: trete
• Ido: traktato
• Indonesian: traktat
• Interlingua: tractato
• Italian: trattato
  • → Romanian: tratat
• → Kazakh: трактат (traktat)
• Ladin: tratat
• Lombard: tratad, trattaa
• → Macedonian: трактат (traktat)
• → Middle Dutch: tractaet
  • Dutch: traktaat, tractaat (superseded)
    • Afrikaans: traktaat
    • → Indonesian: traktat
    • → West Frisian: traktaat
• → Norwegian: traktat
• Occitan: tractat
• Old French: traitié
  • → Middle English: trety
    • English: treaty
      • → Maori: tiriti
  • Middle French: traittié
    • French: traité
• Papiamentu: tratado
• → Polish: traktat
• Portuguese: tratado
• Spanish: tratado
• → Swedish: traktat
• → Ukrainian: трактат (traktat)

References

• “tractatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tractatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tractatus 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)
• tractatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.