different between tractate vs monograph

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tract?tus, past participle of tract? (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trah?. Doublet of treaty.

Noun

tractate (plural tractates)

1. A treatise.

Related terms

• tract
• treatise
• treaty

Translations

Latin

Verb

tract?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tract?

References

• tractate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From mono- (“one”) +? -graph (“write”).

Noun

monograph (plural monographs)

1. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
   • 1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.

     I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.

Translations

Verb

monograph (third-person singular simple present monographs, present participle monographing, simple past and past participle monographed)

1. (transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject).
2. (transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance).

Anagrams

• nomograph, phonogram