atrator

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• atractor (pre-1990 spelling)
• attractor (pre-standardization spelling)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈtoʁ/ [a.tɾaˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈtoʁ/ [a.tɾaˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈtoʁ/ [a.tɾaˈtoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tɾaˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈto.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: a‧tra‧tor

Adjective

atrator (feminine atratora, masculine plural atratores, feminine plural atratoras)

1. attractive (having the quality of attracting by inherent force)

   Synonym: atrativo

Noun

atrator m (plural atratores)

1. attractor (something that attracts)
2. (physics, mathematics) attractor (set of points or states to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time)

   Antonym: repulsor

3. (linguistics) In Portuguese linguistics, a set of words that attract a clitic pronoun towards themselves, from an original postclitic position (chiefly in European Portuguese).

   Palavras como “não” e “nunca” são atratores. ― Words such as “not” and “never” attract the pronoun.

Further reading

• “atrator”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025