Etymology

attrahent

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Today it means: That attracts; drawing, attracting. Full definition →

Latin attrahēns
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  1. Latin · derived fromattrahēns“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”
  2. English todayattrahent

From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns (“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”), the present active participle of attrahō (“to draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “to draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.