tractatus

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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.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative tractātus tractāta tractātum tractātī tractātae tractāta
genitive tractātī tractātae tractātī tractātōrum tractātārum tractātōrum
dative tractātō tractātae tractātō tractātīs
accusative tractātum tractātam tractātum tractātōs tractātās tractāta
ablative tractātō tractātā tractātō tractātīs
vocative tractāte tractāta tractātum tractātī tractātae tractāta

Derived terms

Noun

tractātus m (genitive tractātūs); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tractātus tractātūs
genitive tractātūs tractātuum
dative tractātuī tractātibus
accusative tractātum tractātūs
ablative tractātū tractātibus
vocative tractātus tractātūs

Descendants

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.