treaty

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
2. (archaic, uncountable) Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
3. (archaic, countable) Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
4. (obsolete, uncountable) The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
6. (countable, obsolete) A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
7. (countable, obsolete) An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.

Verb

1. (transitive) To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
2. (intransitive) To enter into a treaty.

Synonyms

agreement

pact

contract

covenant

compact

alliance

accord

convention

compromise

bargain

contractual

talks

article

etc.

agreed

law

negotiation

protocol

clause

concordat

settlement

strip

submission

terms

understanding

about

fix on

accordance

around

arrangement

bind

branch

coexistence

commitment

conclusion

confederacy

consent

deal

draw up

indenture

item

obligation

pad

restrain

section

simply

statute

Translations

traité

tratado

trattato

Vertrag

tratado

συνθήκη

verdrag

Abkommen

antlaşma

traktaat

overeenkomst

pacte

patto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹiːti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trete

Cognate with French: traité

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:
* a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and
* also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.