Translation
to tempt
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Word origin
From Latin temptare, to test or to try, which is also where English tempt, attempt and tentative come from. The moral colouring arrived later, through the biblical sense of putting somebody to the test.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- temptare
- English cognates
- tempt, attempt, tentative
Examples
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The sweet smell tempted me.
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Money tempts even honest people.
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Do not tempt fate.
One letter from trouble. is to tempt; is to hold; is to stretch out, and tenÄi is not a word at all. Nothing about derives from with a -t- on it, the two are separate Latin roots that happen to look alike in Esperanto's tidy spelling. The noun is (a temptation) and the tempter is a .
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 7: tenti, enigmo, raso and 7 more words.