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 [+ a (object)] [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to try, to attempt [+ di (infinitive)] or [+ di (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
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