attribués

Attribués is the plural masculine form of the French past participle attribué, derived from the verb attribuer. It functions as an adjective meaning ascribed or allocated, and it is used to describe properties, sources, authorship, or responsibilities that have been assigned to someone or something. The form agrees with the noun it modifies (attribué, attribuée, attribués, attribuées).

Usage and syntax often involve the preposition à to indicate the entity to which something is attributed. For example: les droits attribués au personnel, les résultats attribués à cette étude, une œuvre attribuée à Rembrandt. In scholarly and bibliographic contexts, attribués is common when discussing provenance or attribution of authorship, origin, or credit.

In philosophy, logic, and linguistics, the term appears in discussions of attribution or ascription of properties, actions, or beliefs to agents or objects. Outside scholarly language, it is widely used in journalism, reporting, and everyday writing to express that a claim or observation has been ascribed to a source or authority.

Etymology and related forms: attribué comes from attribuer, which ultimately derives from Latin ad- « to, toward » + tribuere « to allot, grant ». Related terms include attribution (the act of ascribing) and ascription (a synonymous concept in French), as well as imputation in contexts of assignment or accusation.

Notes: attribués should be distinguished from the verb form attribuer in construction and meaning, and from other gendered/numbered agreements (attribuée, attribuées) according to the noun they accompany.