atentar
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto atenci, French attenter, Italian attentare, Spanish atentar.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
atentar (present tense atentas, past tense atentis, future tense atentos, imperative atentez, conditional atentus)
- (transitive) 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, volume 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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Conjugation edit
present | past | future | |||||
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infinitive | atentar | atentir | atentor | ||||
tense | atentas | atentis | atentos | ||||
conditional | atentus | ||||||
imperative | atentez | ||||||
adjective active participle | atentanta | atentinta | atentonta | ||||
adverbial active participle | atentante | atentinte | atentonte | ||||
nominal active participle | singular | atentanto | atentinto | atentonto | |||
plural | atentanti | atentinti | atentonti | ||||
adjective passive participle | atentata | atentita | atentota | ||||
adverbial passive participle | atentate | atentite | atentote | ||||
nominal passive participle | singular | atentato | atentito | atentoto | |||
plural | atentati | atentiti | atentoti |
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin attentāre (“to attempt; to attack”).
Verb edit
atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)
- to commit or attempt to commit (a crime motivated by ideology)
- to do something that contravenes a convention, morality, religion, rights, etc.
- Atentar contra os direitos humanos. ― To attack human rights.
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From atento (“attentive”) + -ar.
Verb edit
atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)
- to pay attention to something
- Synonym: prestar atenção
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
From a- + tentar (“to tempt”).
Verb edit
atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado)
- to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)
- Synonym: tentar
- (informal) to bother; to irritate; to annoy
- Synonyms: aborrecer, importunar, incomodar, irritar, molestar
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado)
- (intransitive) to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike
- La banda terrorista atentó de nuevo.
- The terrorist group struck again.
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
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Verb edit
atentar (first-person singular present atiento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado)
- (transitive, obsolete) to touch
- Synonym of tentar
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “atentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014