tractatio

Latin

Etymology

From tractō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /trakˈtaː.ti.oː/, [t̪räkˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trakˈtat.t͡si.o/, [t̪räkˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

tractātiō f (genitive tractātiōnis); third declension

1. handling, management, treatment
2. conduct, behaviour

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tractātiō	tractātiōnēs
genitive	tractātiōnis	tractātiōnum
dative	tractātiōnī	tractātiōnibus
accusative	tractātiōnem	tractātiōnēs
ablative	tractātiōne	tractātiōnibus
vocative	tractātiō	tractātiōnēs

Descendants

• → French: tractation (learned)

References

• “tractatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tractatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tractatio 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)
• tractatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the study of belles-lettres; literary pursuits: litterarum studium or tractatio (not occupatio)