tentativa
Interlingua
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tẽ.taˈt͡ʃi.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tẽ.taˈt͡ʃi.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.tɐˈti.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.tɐˈti.bɐ/ [tẽ.tɐˈti.βɐ]
- Hyphenation: ten‧ta‧ti‧va
Etymology 1
Nominalization of the feminine singular of tentativo.
Noun
tentativa f (plural tentativas)
- attempt, trial, experiment
- tentativa de delito ― attempted misdemeanor
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tentaˈtiba/ [t̪ẽn̪.t̪aˈt̪i.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -iba
- Syllabification: ten‧ta‧ti‧va
Noun
tentativa f (plural tentativas)
- attempt, trial, experiment
- 2008, Horacio Quiroga (introduction by Ana Alcolea), Cuentos de la selva para los niños:
- También realiza una tentativa teatral, La sacrificada, que fracasará
- Also, he made a theatrical attempt, La sacrificada, which failed
- endeavor
- Synonym: esfuerzo
Further reading
- “tentativo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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