temptant

temptant is a Latin form of tento, meaning “try, attempt; test”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.2.2: ulteriores temptant. Inventis nonnullis civitatibus iureiurando inter se confirmant obsidibusque de pecunia cavent: Ambiorigem sibi societate et foedere adiungunt.

Petronius, Satyricon 89·2: … s astra radianti face, cum inter sepultos Priamidas nocte et mero Danai relaxant claustra et effundunt viros. Temptant in armis se duces, ceu ubi solet nodo remissus Thessali quadrupes iugi cervicem et altas quatere ad excursum …

All forms of tento (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.