atentar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French attenter, Italian attentare, Spanish atentar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tenˈtar/

Verb

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

1. 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, vol. 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)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of atentar

		present		past		future
infinitive		atentar		atentir		atentor
tense		atentas		atentis		atentos
conditional		atentus
imperative		atentez
adjective active participle		atentanta		atentinta		atentonta
adverbial active participle		atentante		atentinte		atentonte
nominal active participle	singular	atentanto		atentinto		atentonto
	plural	atentanti		atentinti		atentonti
adjective passive participle		atentata		atentita		atentota
adverbial passive participle		atentate		atentite		atentote
nominal passive participle	singular	atentato		atentito		atentoto
	plural	atentati		atentiti		atentoti

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• attentar (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɾ)/, /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɾ)/, /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɻ)/

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin attentāre (“I attempt; I attack”).

Verb

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.

Related terms

• atentado

Etymology 2

Atento (“attentive”) +‎ -ar.

Verb

1. to pay attention to something

Synonyms

• prestar atenção

Derived terms

• atentar o ouvido

Etymology 3

A- +‎ tentar (“to tempt”).

Verb

1. to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)
2. (informal) to bother; to irritate; to annoy

Synonyms

• (to tempt): tentar
• (to bother): aborrecer, importunar, incomodar, irritar, molestar

Related terms

• atentado

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin attentare

Verb

1. to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike

   La banda terrorista atentó de nuevo.

   The terrorist group struck again.

Derived terms

• atentado

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) to touch