tentar

Galician

Alternative forms

• atentar

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptāre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

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."

Conjugation

Related terms

• tentación

References

• “tentar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tentar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tentar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tentar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “tentar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tentar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “tentar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈtar/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to tempt

Conjugation

    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

Interlingua

Verb

tentar

1. to attempt
2. to tempt

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptāre.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ten‧tar

Verb

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

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tentar.

Derived terms

Spanish

Alternative forms

• atentar

Etymology

From Latin temptāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to tempt
2. to touch

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “tentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Verb

tentar

1. present indicative of tenta

Anagrams

• ratten, tanter