English
tractation
Tractation comes from Latin tractatio ‘handling, management, treatment’, from tractō ‘to tug, drag or haul’, and ultimately from trahō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag, pull’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractō‘to tug, drag or haul’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractatio‘handling, management, treatment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1563tractation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag, pull’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractō‘to tug, drag or haul’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractatio‘handling, management, treatment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1563tractation
Earliest quotation: 1563, John Foxe: “In the tractation of all which things our chief…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, train, draft, drag, retreat, draught, distraction, extraction, contraction, abstraction, abstractly, 48 more
through Latin trahō ‘to drag, pull’
treat, contract, portrait, attractive, abstract, extract, trait, distract, tram, attraction, retract, subtraction, trattoria, 34 more
through Latin tractō ‘to tug, drag or haul’
Today it means
noun treatment or handling of a subject; discussion
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / tractation