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Verb
tempto
- first-person singular present indicative of temptar
Latin
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Etymology
Probably from the iterative or frequentative suffix -tō attached to a base derived somehow from *ten- (“to stretch”). There is disagreement about the details: Lewis and Short derive it from tendō (“stretch, stretch out, extend”) (supine tentum) without explaining the origin of the version spelled with -mpt-, whereas De Vaan derives it from the hypothetical supine *temptum of an unattested verb meaning 'to touch, feel' built on *temp-, which can be interpreted as an extended form of *ten- (compare tempus, templum).
Pronunciation
Verb
temptō (present infinitive temptāre, perfect active temptāvī, supine temptātum); first conjugation
- to test the strength; to make an attack upon
- Synonyms: invado, occurro, incurrō, concurro, aggredior, adorior, insto, peto, intrō, invado, adeo
- to test
- Synonyms: periclitor, probō, experior, spectō, explōrō
- to try, attempt
- Synonyms: certō, cōnor, perīclitor
- to urge, incite, rouse
- Synonyms: inflammo, flammo, eccito, instinguo, instigo, excio
- to handle, touch
- Synonyms: tango, contingo
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References
- “tempto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tempto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “temptō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 611