tractate

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tractate (plural tractates)

1. A treatise.

   an abstruse tractate on black magic

Related terms

• tract
• treatise
• treaty

Translations

treatise — see treatise

Latin

Verb

tractāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tractō

References

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