traité French · revision 15959

+ The TLFi and the GLLF distinguish two nouns ''traité'': “treatise”, the Latin ''tractatus'' remade after ''traiter'', and “treaty”, the past participle of ''traiter'' used as a noun.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Larousse)

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+ {{homograph|1|treatise}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1165, Benoît de Sainte-Maure|origins=la trahō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /tʁɛ.te/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /tʁe.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''traité''' ''m'' (plural traités)^(Wiktionary)

+ [[fro|traitié]] (about 1165), ''traicté'' (Oresme, 1370); ''traité'' in Pomey (1671).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ “Treatise” is a Frenchified form of [[la|tractātus|t=handling; treatment of a subject]],^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|13/2, 143b) remade after [[traiter]];^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) the Latin noun is formed on the supine of [[la|tractō|t=to handle, treat]], frequentative of [[la|trahō|t=to draw, drag]].^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Benoît de Sainte-Maure's ''Roman de Troie'' (about 1165) has ''traitié''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Oresme's ''L'acteur commence cy son traicté'' (1370) shows the sense of a written work on a subject,^(Littré 1873)^(Grand Robert 2005) which has stayed constant: a didactic work setting out a subject systematically, as in Descartes's remark that he wrote ''Discours'' and not ''Traité de la Méthode'', or Fénelon's ''Traité de l'éducation des filles''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1165 – ''Traitié'' in Benoît de Sainte-Maure.^(TLFi)

+ * 1370 – ''Traicté'' in Oresme.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1671 – The spelling ''traité''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|treatise]]: ''un traité de philosophie'', ''traité de physique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ {{homograph|2|treaty}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1300, Tournai|origins=la tractō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /tʁɛ.te/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /tʁe.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''traité''' ''m'' (plural traités)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Traitiet'' (1300), ''traiteit'' (1320), ''traictié'' (1322), ''traittié'' (Froissart); ''traicté'' (1596).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ “Treaty” is the past participle of [[traiter|t=to negotiate]] used as a noun,^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)^(FEW|13/2, 141a) the verb being [[inh|la|tractō|t=to handle, treat]].^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ Cognate with [[pro|tractat]], [[es|tratado]] and [[it|trattato]].^(Littré 1873) The Anglo-Norman forms correspond to [[en|treaty]] and [[en|treatise]].^(AND)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A Tournai register of 1300 has ''traitiet'', a negotiated agreement.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ At the end of the 14th century Froissart uses it for an agreement between states (the besieged of Bergerac ''en traité'' with the constable);^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) ''traité de paix'' dates from 1636.^(TLFi) It also named any contract between private persons or with the administration, now dated except in ''traité de réassurance''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873) In modern usage it is chiefly the written international agreement (''le traité de Versailles'', 1919, ''le traité de Rome'', 1957).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1300 – ''Traitiet'' “agreement”.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 14th century – A treaty between states, in Froissart.^(TLFi)

+ * 1636 – ''Traité de paix''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1723 – A commercial contract, in Savary.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|treaty]] (between states): ''traité de paix'', ''traité d'alliance'', ''signer un traité''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(law, dated)'' A contract, agreement between private parties or with an authority.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[traire]]

+ * [[trait]]

+ * [[traitement]]

+ * [[traiter]]

+ * [[traite]]

+ * [[la|tractātus]]

+ * [[en|treaty]]

+ * [[en|treatise]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}