atentar

Borrowed from Esperanto atenci, 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. (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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• attentar (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin attentāre (“to attempt; to attack”).

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

1. to commit or attempt to commit (a crime motivated by ideology)
   • 1930 January 29, “A culpabilidade de dous deputados communistas [The culpability of two communist legislators]”, in Jornal do Brasil‎^[1], volume 20, Rio de Janeiro, page 7:

     O orgão communista “L’Humanité” annuncia que acaba de ser reconhecida a culpabilidade dos deputados Cachin e Dariot, pertencentes á mesma facção partidaria e accusados de attentar contra a segurança do Estado.

     The communist institution “L’Humanité” announces the culpability of legislators Cachin and Dariot, belonging to the same subdivision of the party and accused of attacking the State’s security, has just been recognized.

2. to do something that contravenes a convention, morality, religion, rights, etc.

   Atentar contra os direitos humanos. ― To attack human rights.

• atentado

From atento (“attentive”) +‎ -ar.

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

1. to pay attention to something

   Synonym: prestar atenção

• atentar o ouvido

From a- +‎ tentar (“to tempt”).

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

1. to tempt (to provoke someone to do wrong)

   Synonym: tentar

2. (informal) to bother; to irritate; to annoy

   Synonyms: aborrecer, importunar, incomodar, irritar, molestar

• atentado

• IPA^(key): /atenˈtaɾ/ [a.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ten‧tar

From Latin attentāre.

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

1. (intransitive) to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike

   La banda terrorista atentó de nuevo.

   The terrorist group struck again.

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) to touch
2. synonym of tentar

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