The story
- Latin · derived fromtractātus
- Middle English · inherited fromtractate
- English todaytractate
From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.
Words from the same roots
Latintractātus all →
treaty
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.