tentar

Borrowed from Spanish tentar.

• IPA^(key): /tenˈtaɾ/
• Hyphenation: ten‧tar

tentár (plural terentar, Basahan spelling ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜍ᜔)

1. to tempt

   Synonym: pasagad

2. to seduce

   Synonym: sugot

• atentar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptāre

• IPA^(key): /tenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ten‧tar

tentar (first-person singular present tento, first-person singular preterite tentei, past participle tentado)

1. to tempt

   Ben sabe o diaño a quen tenta, e a besta a quen derruba (proverb) ― The devil well knows who he is tempting, and the horse who he unseats

2. to attempt
3. to feel, touch
4. to fumble; to grope

   Synonyms: apalpar, apalparuxar, atoar, atanxer

   • 1884, O Tío Marcos da Portela, II, 23:

     O zapateiro escomenzou a mirá-lo fito a fito, mirou dempois canto tiña ó seu redor, atentouse a roupa, levou a mau á testa como si nela tivese unha lousa de promo, e quedouse atontecido, non atinando a darse conta do que lle pasaba. O guardián atallando aquel noxoso silencio, escramou con voz grave como a do xuez cando pergunta a un reo: — Doime o corazón ó vé-lo, irmao, nese estado; pola honra da crase a que pertenece debera ser máis parco na bebida.

     The shoemaker stared at him, high and low; he later examined his surroundings, fumbled his clothes, raised his hand to the forehead, as if he had a slab of lead there, and then stood stunned, incapable of finding what was happening to him. The warder, breaking that awkward silence, exclaimed with a deep voice, as a judge questioning a defendant: "It breaks my heart to see you like that, brother. For the honour of the class you belong to, you should be more sparing with drinks."

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tentar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tentar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tentar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tentar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tentar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tentar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tentar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English tempt, French tenter, Italian tentare, Spanish tentar.

• IPA^(key): /tenˈtar/

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

1. (transitive) to tempt

    Conjugation of tentar

		present		past		future
infinitive		tentar		tentir		tentor
tense		tentas		tentis		tentos
conditional		tentus
imperative		tentez
adjective active participle		tentanta		tentinta		tentonta
adverbial active participle		tentante		tentinte		tentonte
nominal active participle	singular	tentanto		tentinto		tentonto
	plural	tentanti		tentinti		tentonti
adjective passive participle		tentata		tentita		tentota
adverbial passive participle		tentate		tentite		tentote
nominal passive participle	singular	tentato		tentito		tentoto
	plural	tentati		tentiti		tentoti

tentar

1. to attempt
2. to tempt

From Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptāre.

• Hyphenation: ten‧tar

tentar (first-person singular present tento, first-person singular preterite tentei, past participle tentado)

1. to try, go for, attempt
2. to tease, tempt
3. to dare

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tentar.

• atentar

From Latin temptāre.

• IPA^(key): /tenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ten‧tar

tentar (first-person singular present tiento, first-person singular preterite tenté, past participle tentado)

1. to tempt
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 122:

     A quien dice mil veces «Jesús» el día de la Exaltación de la Cruz, no le tienta el Demonio a la hora de la muerte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to touch

• “tentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

tentar

1. present indicative of tenta

• ratten, tanter