tentar

• atentar

From Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptō.

• IPA^(key): [tenˈtaɾ]

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
   • 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."

   Synonym: apalpar

• tentación

• “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 Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tentar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

tentar

1. to attempt
2. to tempt

From Old Galician-Portuguese tentar, from Latin temptō.

• 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
4. inflection of tentar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tentar.

• atentar

From Latin temptāre, present active infinitive of temptō.

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

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

1. to tempt
2. to touch

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

tentar

1. present tense of tenta.

• ratten, tanter