Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Attributive has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify
"`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'"
Modifying a noun, while in the same phrase as that noun.
The word comes from combining "attribute" with the suffix "-ive." It originally meant something that serves as an attribute or quality of a person or thing.