atentar

== Ido == === Etymology === Borrowed from Esperanto atenci, French attenter, Italian attentare, Spanish atentar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.tenˈtar/ === Verb === atentar (present tense atentas, past tense atentis, future tense atentos, imperative atentez, conditional atentus) (transitive) to attempt a crime, to attack, to assault 2007 March, 'Otegi: "Hispania devas pagar nula politikala preco ad ETA"', Adavane!, no. 20, page 11. ==== Conjugation ==== == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === attentar (obsolete) === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin attentāre (“to attempt; to attack”). ==== Verb ==== 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 ===== ===== Related terms ===== atentado === Etymology 2 === From atento (“attentive”) +‎ -ar. ==== Verb ==== atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atentei, past participle atentado) to pay attention to something Synonym: prestar atenção ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== atentar o ouvido === Etymology 3 === From a- +‎ tentar (“to tempt”). ==== Verb ==== 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 ===== ===== Related terms ===== atentado === Further reading === “atentar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “atentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /atenˈtaɾ/ [a.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: a‧ten‧tar === Etymology 1 === From Latin attentāre. ==== Verb ==== atentar (first-person singular present atento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado) (intransitive) to commit a violent or criminal attack, to strike ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Verb ==== atentar (first-person singular present atiento, first-person singular preterite atenté, past participle atentado) (transitive, obsolete) to touch synonym of tentar ===== Conjugation ===== === Further reading === “atentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025