attempt

• n. 試みる；試みる；攻撃する
• vt.試みる；試みる；試みる

接頭辞at-はad-と同じ。 -temptはtend, inclinationのように。鼻音のm、nの音変化。

attempt

attempt: [14] Attempting is etymologically related to tempting. The Latin verb attemptāre was formed with the prefix ad- from temptāre, which meant ‘try’ as well as ‘tempt’ (the semantic connection is preserved in modern English try, with the contrasting senses ‘attempt’ and ‘put to the test’). The Latin form passed into Old French as atenter (hence modern French attenter), but was later latinized back to attempter, the form in which English acquired it.
=> tempt

attempt (v.)

late 14c., from Old French attempter (14c.), earlier atenter "to try, attempt, test," from Latin attemptare "to try" (cognates: Italian attentare, Old Proven?al, Portuguese attentar, Spanish atentar), from ad- "to, upon" (see ad-) + temptare "to try" (see tempt). Related: Attempted; attempting.

attempt (n.)

1530s, from attempt (v.). Meaning "effort to accomplish something by violence" is from 1580s, especially as an assault on someone's life.

1. An attempt by anti-abortionists to tighten the rules was defeated.

反堕胎者による補強法の試みは失敗した。

2.Army officers plotted a failed attempt yesterday to seize power.

将校たちは昨日権力奪取未遂をした。

3.These feelings are likely to make people attempt to overthrow the system.

これらの感情は、現行の体制を転覆させようとする可能性がある。

4.The action seemed a clumsy attempt to topple the Janata Dal government.

人民党政府を転覆しようとするこの行動には戦略が欠けているようだ。

5.The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.

英国がアイルランドで植民地開拓を最初に試みたのは12世紀だった。