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attingent

/əˈtɪn.dʒənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
at-tin-gent
IPA
/əˈtɪn.dʒənt/
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

touching; adjacent

Formal; Literary

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attingēns (“touching”, passive participle), from Latin attingō (“to touch; to come into contact with”, verb). Further from Latin tangō (“to touch, to grasp”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō and Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, both verbs of the same meaning.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *teh₂g-, attingēns, attingō, tangō, *tangō

Usage

Inflected Forms

more attingent (comparative) most attingent (superlative)

Derived Forms

attingence attingency

Questions

How do you pronounce attingent?
The recorded pronunciation is /əˈtɪn.dʒənt/.
What does attingent mean?
touching; adjacent
Where does attingent come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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