tratar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to treat (to handle, behave toward in a specific way)
  2. (transitive) to treat (to apply medical care)
  3. (transitive) to treat (to submit to a chemical action)
  4. (transitive) to address, to refer to as
  5. (intransitive) to deal with
  6. (intransitive) to try, to seek, to attempt, to strive, to endeavor
  7. (reflexive) to be about, to concern

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
tra‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾaˈtaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tractāre (“to drag; to handle; to practice”), from tractus (“dragged”), perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag; to extract”). Cf. also the obsolete or regional inherited doublet trechar (“to cut open and salt eels being dried and cured”). Cognate to English treat and Portuguese tratar.

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