atentar

Borrowed from French attenter, Italian attentare, Spanish atentar.

• IPA^(key): /a.tenˈtar/

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

1. to attempt a crime, to attack, to assault
   • 1908, Johann Baptiste Pinth, Jesu Kristo: sa biografio segun la quar evangelyi, page 11.

     Pos la morto di Herodes, anjelo di la Sinioro aparis en Egipto a Josef en sonjo, dicante: « Levez tu, prenez l['] infanto kun sa patrino e re-irez a lando Israel, nam ilta esas mortinta, qua atentis a la vivo di l['] infanto. »

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   • 1913, Progreso, vol. 5, page 362.

     Tale lu atentis la majesto di la Fundame[nto]: tamen lu « restis fidela », ed on ne exkomunikis lu!

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   • 2007 March, 'Otegi: "Hispania devas pagar nula politikala preco ad ETA"', Adavane!, no. 20, page 11.

     Ti qui atentis ye la 11ma di marto volis mortigar la maxim granda nombro de personi, e pluse en treni qui transportis laboristi a lia laboreyi.

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• attentar (obsolete)

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɾ)/, /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɹ)/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɾ)/, /a.tẽ.ˈta(ɻ)/

From Latin attentāre (“I attempt; I attack”).

atentar (first-person singular present indicative atento, past participle atentado)

1. to commit or attempt to commit a crime motivated by ideology
2. to do something that contravenes a convention, morality, religion, rights, etc.

   Atentar contra os direitos humanos.

   To attack human rights.

• atentado

Atento (“attentive”) +‎ -ar.

atentar (first-person singular present indicative atento, past participle atentado)

1. to pay attention to something

• prestar atenção

• atentar o ouvido

A- +‎ tentar (“to tempt”).

atentar (first-person singular present indicative atento, past participle atentado)

1. to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)
2. (informal) to bother; to irritate; to annoy

• (to tempt): tentar
• (to bother): aborrecer, importunar, incomodar, irritar, molestar

• atentado

From Latin attentare

atentar (first-person singular present atiento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado)

1. to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike

   La banda terrorista atentó de nuevo.

   The terrorist group struck again.

• atentado

atentar

1. (obsolete) to touch

• Rule: e becomes an ie in stressed syllables.