attent

From Latin attentus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈtɛnt/

attent (comparative more attent, superlative most attent)

1. (archaic) Attentive, heedful; intent. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 6:40:

     Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XIV:

     All patiently awaited the event
     Without a stir or sound, as if no less
     Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent.

attent (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Attention.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So being clad unto the fields he went
     With the faire Pastorella every day,
     And kept her sheepe with diligent attent

From attentie.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈtɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: at‧tent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

attent (comparative attenter, superlative attentst)

1. observant, perceptive
2. courteous

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “attent”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Borrowed from Italian attento.

• IPA^(key): /atˈtɛnt/

attent (feminine singular attenta, plural attenti)

1. attentive

   Antonym: diżattent