treaty
TOEFL・大学受験条約、条約（sign a ~）
意味
- (国家間の)条約,協定
- 条約(協定)文書
- 《文》(個人間の)約定
例文
The treaty bans atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.
条約は原水爆の使用を禁止している。
The treaty bans the use of chemical weapons.
条約は化学兵器の使用を禁止している。
The two countries negotiated a peace treaty.
その２国は平和条約を取り決めた。
語源
treat「扱う」と同じ語源（ラテン語tractare）。国どうしが事柄を扱って話し合い、まとまった取り決め「条約」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is: * a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug…