tratar

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

address

strive for

try to

give medicine

seek to

take step to

struggle to

apply for

administrar medicamentos

dar remedio

cacharear

bisnear

familiarmente tratar

Frequency

Hyphenated as

tra‧tar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɾaˈtaɾ/

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin tractāre (“to drag; to handle; to practice”), from tractus (“dragged”), perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag; to extract”), from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”). 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.

Cognate with English

treat

Cognate with Portuguese

tratar

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Sentences

Cuando se produce por una compensación , se debe tratar la causa original .

When it occurs for compensation, the original cause must be addressed.

Cada capítulo busca tratar , de forma clara y

didáctica , temas relativos a la filosofía .

Each chapter seeks to deal, in a clear and didactic way, with topics related to philosophy.

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