traicter

Middle French

Verb

traicter

  1. to treat (a certain way)
    • 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
      Ce fait, Gymnaste se retyre, considerant que les cas de hazart iamais ne fault poursuyvre iusques a leur periode et qu'il convient a tous chevaliers reverentement traicter leur bonne fortune
      This done, Gymnast left, considering that one should never follow a fluke to the end of its process, and that all knights should treat their good luck modestly.
  2. (of a topic) to treat
    • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 10:
      il faut feuilleter sans distinction toutes sortes d’autheurs et vieils et nouveaux, et barragouins et François, pour y apprendre les choses, dequoy diversement ils traictent.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Conjugation
  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
   Conjugation of traicter
simple compound
infinitive traicter avoir tracté
gerund en tractant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle tractant
past participle tracté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie (may be i' before a vowel) tu il nous vous ilz, elles
simple
tenses		 present tracte tractes tracte tractons tractez tractent
imperfect tractois, tractoys tractois, tractoys tractoit, tractoyt tractions, tractyons tractiez, tractyez tractoient, tractoyent
past historic tracta tractas tracta tractasmes tractastes tracterent
future tracterai, tracteray tracteras tractera tracterons tracterez tracteront
conditional tracterois, tracteroys tracterois, tracteroys tracteroit, tracteroyt tracterions, tracteryons tracteriez, tracteryez tracteroient, tracteroyent
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que ie que tu qu'il que nous que vous qu'ilz, qu'elles
simple
tenses		 present tracte tractes tracte tractons tractez tractent
imperfect tractasse tractasses tractast tractassions tractassiez tractassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— tracte — tractons tractez —

Descendants
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