tractatio Latin · revision 33595

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [trakˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [trakˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tractātiō''' ''f'' (genitive tractātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tractō|-tiō|t1=to handle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|tractō]] as derived from [[m|la|tractus]], the past participle of [[m|la|trahō|t=to draw, drag]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*traχe/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Its closest cognates are Celtic, such as [[sga|tráig|t=ebb, beach]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that people who want to play the lyre or the flute learn how to handle them from musicians, not from soothsayers: ''earum tractationem''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the physical handling or treatment of something, as Vitruvius' colours made by processing other substances,^(OLD 2012) and the management of living creatures, as in Cicero's ''De officiis'' on the handling of beasts that is useful to men.^(OLD 2012) ''Mala tractātiō'' is maltreatment of a wife, children or dependants, as a charge in the elder Seneca's declamations.^(OLD 2012) It is also the treatment or handling of non-physical things and the consideration or discussion of a subject:^(OLD 2012) Cicero says the study of literature was itself a help to him.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is the handling of a case or theme, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is a treatise or treatment,^(Stelten 1995) and Wiktionary gives also the senses conduct, behaviour.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of handling instruments and of the study of literature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius, of processing materials into colours.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – the elder Seneca, of maltreatment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Physical handling, [[m|en|manipulation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The management or handling of living creatures;^(OLD 2012) ''mala tractātiō'', [[m|en|maltreatment]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|treatment|alt=Treatment]], handling (of things or matters).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Consideration, [[m|en|discussion]] (of a subject); ''(rhetoric)'' the handling of a case or theme.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|treatise]].^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Conduct, behaviour.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[maletractatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tractō]]

+ * [[tractātus]]

+ * [[trahō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}