tratament

Forms

tratament n (plural tratamente)^[1] The old form was tractament, with a plural tractamenturi: Dionisie Eclesiarhul writes „Ei s-au apucat de baluri și de tractamenturi” “they took to balls and banquets”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin tractamentum, adapted to the verb trata: the view of Tiktin, the DLR and MDA2.^[2][4][3] For one of its senses the DLR and MDA2 also compare German Traktament and French traitement.^[4][3] DEX derives the word from Italian trattamento and the French noun, and the neologism dictionaries name Latin, Italian and French.^[5][6][7][1] The Italian noun belongs to trattare, from tractō (“to handle, to manage, to treat”).^[8][9]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the word to 1815, in the chronicle of Dionisie Eclesiarhul, in the form tractament.^[2] There it meant the result of a council's deliberation, a decision: „Neputând regialele a face lucrarea lor la împăratul după tractamentul divanului lor” “the royal party being unable to do their business with the emperor according to the decision of their divan”.^[2] The same chronicle uses it for a feast.^[2] MDA2 cites the same work.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The two early senses, “decision” and “banquet, entertainment of guests”, are obsolete.^[2] The medical sense, the means used to fight a disease, is recorded in a calendar of 1862 and is now the most common.^[4][3]

Beside it stand the way one behaves towards a person, the operations applied to a material in industry or science, and, in phonetics, the development of a sound.^[5][6] The DN also records a film-making sense, a detailed account of a film's story built on the synopsis.^[6]

Timeline

• 1815 – tractament “decision; banquet” in Dionisie Eclesiarhul's chronicle, the first record.^[2]
• 1862 – the medical sense, in a calendar.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. The way one treats or behaves towards someone: un tratament sever.^[5][6][1]
2. Medical therapy: all the dietary, medicinal, spa and hygienic means used against a disease.^[5][3]
3. A set of operations applied to a material or organism to change its quality, form or structure: tratament termic “heat treatment”.^[5][10]
4. (phonetics) The development or change of a sound.^[5][6]
5. (film) A detailed account of a film's story, developed from the synopsis.^[6]

Related words

• trata
• Italian trattamento

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. tratament
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1261
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. tratament
5. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1140
6. ^ a b c d e f Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
7. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
8. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
9. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
10. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 4, 477