tratar
Meaning
- to treat (to handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way)
- to deal with, to handle, to take care of
- to treat (to apply medical care to a person)
- to treat (to apply medical care in order to eliminate a condition)
- (transitive) to treat (to subject to a chemical or other action)
- (intransitive) to negotiate, to deal, to have dealings
- (reciprocal, reflexive) to negotiate (with one another)
- (transitive) to address
- (pronominal) to behave (to conduct oneself in a given way)
- (intransitive, transitive) to take care of; to care for (to attend to the needs of)
- (intransitive, transitive) to cover, to deal with, to concern, to be about (to have as its subject)
- (pronominal) to cover, to deal with, to concern, to be about (to have as its subject)
- (intransitive) to talk about; to discuss
- promptly; usually used to emphasise orders
- (Brazil, transitive) to feed (to give someone, especially an animal, food to eat)
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾaˈta(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
Semi-learned form modified from older tractar, borrowed from Latin tractāre (“to drag; to handle; to practice”), from tractus (“dragged”), perfect passive participle of trahō (“to drag; to extract”).
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