Dictionary

treatise en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈtɹiːtɪz/
• /ˈtɹiːtɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English tretys, from Anglo-Norman tretiz and Old French traitis (“treatise, account”), from traitier (“to deal with, treat”).

Meanings

1. A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
   • "As you cannot make a speech, you must," said Henrietta, "put it into a treatise." 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 191:
   • “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]” 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes. 2013 July–August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
   • And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 232d:
   • [M]y Fell of haire / VVould at a diſmall Treatiſe rovvze, and ſtirre / As life vvere in't. c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 150, column 1:

Forms

Deriveds

treatiser · treatiselike · learned treatise

Relateds

treaty · treat

Synonyms

treatment · disquisition · tractate · dissertation · monograph

Translations (46)

ca tractat (systematic discourse on some subject) · ru нау́чный труд (systematic discourse on some subject) · lb Traité (systematic discourse on some subject) · uk тракта́т (systematic discourse on some subject) · pl traktat (systematic discourse on some subject) · cmn 論文 /论文 (systematic discourse on some subject) · id risalah (systematic discourse on some subject) · es tratado (systematic discourse on some subject) · ro tratat (systematic discourse on some subject) · cs odborná stať (systematic discourse on some subject) · ar رِسَالَة (systematic discourse on some subject) · is fræðileg ritgerð (systematic discourse on some subject) · ru тракта́т (systematic discourse on some subject) · ru курс (systematic discourse on some subject) · mk тракта́т (systematic discourse on some subject) · la tractātus (systematic discourse on some subject) · arc מַסֶּכְתָּא (systematic discourse on some subject) · el διατριβή (systematic discourse on some subject) · cmn 論著 /论著 (systematic discourse on some subject) · bg трактат (systematic discourse on some subject) · nl scriptie (systematic discourse on some subject) · kk трактат (systematic discourse on some subject) · el πραγματεία (systematic discourse on some subject) · ja 論文 (systematic discourse on some subject) · de Traktat (systematic discourse on some subject) · sv avhandling (systematic discourse on some subject) · gl tratado (systematic discourse on some subject) · kk ғақлия (systematic discourse on some subject) · da afhandling (systematic discourse on some subject) · mi tuhinga whakapae (systematic discourse on some subject) · fi tutkielma (systematic discourse on some subject) · fr traité (systematic discourse on some subject) · it trattato (systematic discourse on some subject) · cmn 專著 /专著 (systematic discourse on some subject) · he מסכת (systematic discourse on some subject) · pt tratado (systematic discourse on some subject) · eo traktaĵo (systematic discourse on some subject) · de Abhandlung (systematic discourse on some subject) · nl verhandeling (systematic discourse on some subject) · nb avhandling (systematic discourse on some subject) · hi प्रबंध (systematic discourse on some subject) · la detractatus (systematic discourse on some subject) · sv traktat (systematic discourse on some subject) · cs vědecký spis (systematic discourse on some subject) · cmn 論述 /论述 (systematic discourse on some subject) · cs pojednání (systematic discourse on some subject)