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temptare

temptare is a Latin form of tento, meaning “try, attempt; test”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 120 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.6.4: Quo proelio facto, quod saepius fortunam temptare Galba nolebat atque alio se in hiberna consilio venisse meminerat, aliis occurrisse rebus videbat, maxime fru …

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.