contrat

contract

Related: contrat à durée déterminée, contrat à durée indéterminée, contrat de bail, contrat de travail, contrat social, sous contrat

Inherited from Old French contract, borrowed from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).