attentare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attentāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.tenˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: at‧ten‧tà‧re

Verb

attentàre (first-person singular present attènto or atténto[1], first-person singular past historic attentài, past participle attentàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to try to damage, to attack [with a] [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to try, to attempt [with di (+ infinitive or object)] [auxiliary avere]
    Synonyms: provare, tentare
  3. (transitive, religious law) to attempt to celebrate (a marriage) (especially invalidly)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ attento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

attentāre

  1. inflection of attentō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative