traitable, adj., tractable, manageable; (metal.) ductile, pliant, soft, malleable.
traitant, n.m., farmer (of the revenue); contractor.
traite, n.f., stage, journey, stretch; trade, trading (on the African coast); milking; (com.) draft, bill; banking; exportation; ☉customs duty. Je m’y rendis tout d’une —; I made but one stage of it. — des nègres, — des noirs; slave-trade. Tout d’une —; at a stretch. Bâtiment de —; slaver, slave-ship. Faire la —; to carry on the slave-trade; to trade with the coast of Africa.
traité, n.m., treatise, tract, dissertation; treaty; agreement. — de paix; treaty of peace. — de commerce; commercial treaty.
traitement (trèt-mān), n.m., treatment; reception, honors; usage; entertainment (to ambassadors or envoys); salary, stipend, emoluments (of a place); (med., chem.) treatment; (nav.) full pay. Mauvais —s; ill-usage, ill-treatment.
traiter, v.a., to treat; to discuss, to handle, to discourse upon; to use, to behave to; to call, to style; to negotiate, to treat for, to be in treaty for; to treat of; to entertain, to board; to execute, to do; (med., chem.) to treat. Il m’a traité en frère; he treated me like a brother. — quelqu’un avec honneur; to show any one great honor. — de haut en bas; to treat with contempt. Il l’a traité de fat; he called him a fop. — quelqu’un de Turc à More; to treat any one like a Turk, to use any one shamefully.
se traiter, v.r., to be treated; to treat one’s self; to treat one another; to live (well or badly); to be one’s own doctor.
traiter, v.n., to treat, to discuss; to negotiate, to be in negotiation for; to come to terms; to entertain, to treat; to keep an ordinary; to keep a boarding-house. — d’une matière; to treat of a matter. — à tant par tête; to keep an ordinary at so much a head; to board people at so much a head.
traiteur, n.m., eating-house keeper; Louisiana trader.
traître, -sse, n. and adj., traitor, treacherous man; traitress, treacherous woman; treacherous, false, perfidious; traitorous. Les chats sont —s; cats are treacherous. En —; treacherously, perfidiously. Prendre en —; to fall upon, or attack, in a treacherous manner. Pas un — mot; not a single word.