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attingent.

touching; adjacent

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/əˈtɪn.dʒənt/
  1. touching; adjacent

    formal · literary
Where this word comes from

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.

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