attrahitur

Attrahitur is a Latin verb form meaning “is drawn” or “is attracted.” It is the third-person singular present passive indicative of the verb attrahere, which means to draw toward or to attract. The underlying verb is built from the root trahere (to pull) with the prefix ad- indicating direction toward something, yielding attrahere.

In usage, attrahitur expresses a state resulting from an action performed by an agent, which may be named with the preposition a or ab in the ablative: Urbs ab mercatoribus attrahitur (“The city is attracted by merchants”). The form belongs to the regular third conjugation of -ere verbs, and its present passive paradigm is: attrahor, attraheris, attrahitur, attrahimur, attrahimini, attrahuntur.

The perfect passive participle of attrahere is attractus (with agreeing forms attractus, attracta, attractum), used with sum to form the perfect passive: urbs attracta est (it has been attracted). Other common verbal forms follow the standard patterns of the -ere conjugation, but attrahitur is most often encountered in the present tense, where it simply conveys the ongoing state of being drawn or attracted.

Beyond its literal sense, attrahitur appears in figurative contexts to describe things that attract interest, attention, or favor. Related terms include attrahere (to attract), attractio (attraction), and the noun form attractus/attracta/ attractum used in perfect passive constructions.