attendo

See also: attendò

Italian

Verb

attendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of attendere

Anagrams

• dentato, dettano, dotante

Latin

Alternative forms

• adtendō

Etymology

From ad- +‎ tendō (“stretch, extend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [atˈtɛn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈtɛn.do]

Verb

attendō (present infinitive attendere, perfect active attendī, supine attentum); third conjugation

1. to pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards

   Synonyms: intendō, advertō, animadvertō, adversō

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.16:

     Nōn est, mī Lūcīlī, quod amīcum tantum in forō et in cūriā quaerās: sī dīligenter attenderis, et domī inveniēs.

     It’s not, my Lucilius, that you should seek a friend only in the forum and in the senate-house: if you pay attention diligently, you will also find [one] at home.
     (Translating the future perfect “attenderis” as present with future sense. An ancient Roman household might include relations, slaves, and freedmen; here Seneca refers to the possibility of a master befriending a slave.)

2. to direct or turn toward

Conjugation

   Conjugation of attendō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	attendō		attendis		attendit		attendimus		attenditis		attendunt
	imperfect	attendēbam		attendēbās		attendēbat		attendēbāmus		attendēbātis		attendēbant
	future	attendam		attendēs		attendet		attendēmus		attendētis		attendent
	perfect	attendī		attendistī		attendit		attendimus		attendistis		attendērunt, attendēre
	pluperfect	attenderam		attenderās		attenderat		attenderāmus		attenderātis		attenderant
	future perfect	attenderō		attenderis		attenderit		attenderimus		attenderitis		attenderint
passive	present	attendor		attenderis, attendere		attenditur		attendimur		attendiminī		attenduntur
	imperfect	attendēbar		attendēbāris, attendēbāre		attendēbātur		attendēbāmur		attendēbāminī		attendēbantur
	future	attendar		attendēris, attendēre		attendētur		attendēmur		attendēminī		attendentur
	perfect	attentus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	attentus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	attentus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	attendam		attendās		attendat		attendāmus		attendātis		attendant
	imperfect	attenderem		attenderēs		attenderet		attenderēmus		attenderētis		attenderent
	perfect	attenderim		attenderīs		attenderit		attenderīmus		attenderītis		attenderint
	pluperfect	attendissem		attendissēs		attendisset		attendissēmus		attendissētis		attendissent
passive	present	attendar		attendāris, attendāre		attendātur		attendāmur		attendāminī		attendantur
	imperfect	attenderer		attenderēris, attenderēre		attenderētur		attenderēmur		attenderēminī		attenderentur
	perfect	attentus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	attentus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		attende		—		—		attendite		—
	future	—		attenditō		attenditō		—		attenditōte		attenduntō
passive	present	—		attendere		—		—		attendiminī		—
	future	—		attenditor		attenditor		—		—		attenduntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		attendere			attendī			attendēns			—
future		attentūrum esse			attentum īrī			attentūrus			attendendus, attendundus
perfect		attendisse			attentum esse			—			attentus
future perfect		—			attentum fore			—			—
perfect potential		attentūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		attendendī		attendendō		attendendum		attendendō		attentum		attentū

Descendants

• Catalan: atendre
• English: attend
• French: attendre
• Galician: atender
• Istriot: aténdi
• Italian: attendere
• Portuguese: atender
• Sicilian: attènniri
• Spanish: atender

References

• “attendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “attendo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn one's attention to a thing: animum attendere ad aliquid
    
  • to attend carefully: diligenter attendere (aliquid)