Etymology

attrite

A1T1T1R1I1T1E1

Today it means: Regretful of one's wrongdoing merely due to fear of punishment. Full definition →

Latin attrītus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromattrītus“ground”
  2. English todayattrite

From Latin attrītus (“ground”).

Words from the same roots

Latinattrītus all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.