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attendant (n.)
1550s, "one who waits upon," from pp. adj. (mid-15c.), from O.Fr.
atendant
, prp. of
atendre
(see
attend
). The adj. originally meant "attentive;" sense of "accompanying in a dependant position" is from 1610s.