attractus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of attrahō. ==== Participle ==== attractus (feminine attracta, neuter attractum); first/second-declension participle attracted prompted, moved, incited drawn, dragged in or together or before or along, led contracted or knitted (e.g., one's brows) ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== French: attrait Italian: attratto Portuguese: atreito → Irish: Athracht === Etymology 2 === From attrahō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== attractus m (genitive attractūs); fourth declension (Late Latin) a drawing to, attraction ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “attractus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “attractus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "attractus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) attractus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011