Middle English (in the sense ‘seize by legal authority’): from medieval Latin attachiare ‘seize, fasten’ and Old French atachier or estachier ‘fasten, fix’, of uncertain origin; perhaps based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake; compare with attack
中世ラテン語のattachiare「つかむ、留める」と古フランス語のatachierまたはestachier「留める、固定する」に由来し、起源は不明である。