atentar

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Borrowed from Esperanto atenciFrench attenterItalian attentareSpanish atentar.

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atentar (present tense atentas, past tense atentis, future tense atentos, imperative atentez, conditional atentus)

  1. (transitive) to attempt a crime, to attack, to assault
    • 1908, Johann Baptiste Pinth, Jesu Kristo: sa biografio segun la quar evangelyi, page 11:
      Pos la morto di Herodes, anjelo di la Sinioro aparis en Egipto a Josef en sonjo, dicante: « Levez tu, prenez l['] infanto kun sa patrino e re-irez a lando Israel, nam ilta esas mortinta, qua atentis a la vivo di l['] infanto. »
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1913, Progreso, volume 5, page 362:
      Tale lu atentis la majesto di la Fundame[nto]: tamen lu « restis fidela », ed on ne exkomunikis lu!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2007 March, 'Otegi: "Hispania devas pagar nula politikala preco ad ETA"', Adavane!, no. 20, page 11.
      Ti qui atentis ye la 11ma di marto volis mortigar la maxim granda nombro de personi, e pluse en treni qui transportis laboristi a lia laboreyi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Etymology 1[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin attentāre (to attempt; to attack).

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atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)

  1. to commit or attempt to commit (a crime motivated by ideology)
  2. to do something that contravenes a convention, morality, religion, rights, etc.
    Atentar contra os direitos humanos.To attack human rights.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From atento (attentive) +‎ -ar.

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atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)

  1. to pay attention to something
    Synonym: prestar atenção
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Etymology 3[edit]

From a- +‎ tentar (to tempt).

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atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)

  1. to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)
    Synonym: tentar
  2. (informal) to bother; to irritate; to annoy
    Synonyms: aborrecer, importunar, incomodar, irritar, molestar
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  • IPA(key): /atenˈtaɾ/ [a.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: a‧ten‧tar

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin attentāre.

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atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado)

  1. (intransitive) to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike
    La banda terrorista atentó de nuevo.
    The terrorist group struck again.
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atentar (first-person singular present atiento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to touch
  2. Synonym of tentar
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