attenir

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin attinere (with adaptation in conjugation to tenir), but modern uses are likely back-formations from the more current adjective attenant). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /at.niʁ/ === Verb === attenir (archaic, inanimate, intransitive) to border; be next to; abut 1956, Bernard Tourville & Evelyn Colomb (translators), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), “La Ligue des Rouquins”; original English: Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Red-headed League” (short story), in The Strand Magazine, 1891 August: ==== Usage notes ==== The object is introduced by the preposition à. ==== Conjugation ==== This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -tenir, such as contenir and détenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start with one of these thematic vowels: -a-, -i-, -u-. === Further reading === “attenir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === entrait, étirant, inertât, itérant, nitrate, rentait, tartine