treaty English · revision 6089

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1382|origins=la tractāre}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈtriː.ti/, US /ˈtriː.t̬i/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English tretee, [[bor|xno|treté]], [[bor|fro|traitié|t=assembly, agreement, dealings]] (modern French traité),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) from [[la|tractātus|t=handling, discussion, management]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|tractāre|t=to handle, manage]] (see [[treat]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) It is a doublet of [[tractate]].^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The treatment of a subject in speech or writing, discussion: 1382, in the Wycliffe Bible.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A treatise or discourse is from about 1400, now obsolete,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and negotiation, the discussion of terms with a view to settlement, from about 1386.^(OED 1989) From negotiation came the agreement reached by it, 1427,^(OED 1989) and a contract between nations is first in the Rolls of Parliament in 1430–31,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) formally ratified by the supreme power of each.^(Etymonline) Entreaty or request (about 1450) and treatment or usage (1630) have died out.^(OED 1989) The SOED also has a short-lived verb, to negotiate.^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1382 – treatment, discussion, in the Wycliffe Bible.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1386 – negotiation.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1400 – a treatise.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1427 – an agreement.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1430–31 – a contract between states.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A formal [[agreement]] between two or more states, as on peace, [[alliance]] or trade, or the document setting it out.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Any contract or agreement.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(archaic)'' [[negotiation|alt=Negotiation]] aimed at an agreement.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nontreaty]]

+ * [[treaty port]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[entreat]]

+ * [[entreaty]]

+ * [[tractate]]

+ * [[trait]]

+ * [[treat]]

+ * [[treatable]]

+ * [[treatise]]

+ * [[treatment]]

+ * [[tract]]

+ * [[traction]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}