attraire

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French atraire, atreire, from Vulgar Latin *attragere, from Latin attrahō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.tʁɛʁ/
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Verb

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attraire

  1. (obsolete) to attract (be attractive)
  2. (obsolete, law) to sue

Conjugation

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This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -attray- root: *je attrayis, *que nous attrayissions etc. Forms using the 'a' endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms. The root -attrais- was used instead of -attray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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