tratar
Sentences
Meaning
- (transitive) to treat (to handle, behave toward in a specific way)
- (transitive) to treat (to apply medical care)
- (transitive) to treat (to submit to a chemical action)
- (transitive) to address, to refer to as
- (intransitive) to deal with
- (intransitive) to try, to seek, to attempt, to strive, to endeavor
- (reflexive) to be about, to concern
Concepts
address
strive for
try to
give medicine
seek to
take step to
struggle to
apply for
Synonyms
administrar medicamentos
dar remedio
cacharear
bisnear
familiarmente tratar
Translations
Frequency
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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