attendo

attendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of attendere

• dentato, dettano, dotante

• adtendō

From ad- +‎ tendō (“stretch, extend”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [atˈtɛn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈtɛn.do]

attendō (present infinitive attendere, perfect active attendī, supine attentum); third conjugation

1. to pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards

   Synonyms: intendō, advertō, animadvertō, adversō

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.16:

     Nōn est, mī Lūcīlī, quod amīcum tantum in forō et in cūriā quaerās: sī dīligenter attenderis, et domī inveniēs.

     It’s not, my Lucilius, that you should seek a friend only in the forum and in the senate-house: if you pay attention diligently, you will also find [one] at home.
     (Translating the future perfect “attenderis” as present with future sense. An ancient Roman household might include relations, slaves, and freedmen; here Seneca refers to the possibility of a master befriending a slave.)

2. to direct or turn toward

• “attendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “attendo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn one's attention to a thing: animum attendere ad aliquid
    
  • to attend carefully: diligenter attendere (aliquid)