attach

Signification

1. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
2. To adhere; to be attached.
3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
4. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
6. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
7. (obsolete) To arrest, seize.

Coupé comme

at‧tach

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/əˈtæt͡ʃ/

Étymologie

From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.