Attentat

Meaning

attack; assassination (killing, or attempted killing, for ideological reasons)

Concepts

assassination

attempt

assault

attack

outrage

violation

assassin, attempt

damaging

violence

swing

labor

aspiration

assay

effort

endeavor

endeavour

enterprise

essay

exertion

experiment

go

lost cause

shot in the dark

struggle

test

the whole shooting match

trial

try

willingness

work

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈatənˌtaːt/

Etymology

Borrowed and relatinized from French attentat, from Latin attentātum, attemptātum (“attempt; attempted crime”), derived from attentō, attemptō.
May have been reinterpreted as a complex noun, with the second component being Tat (“deed, act, crime”).

Sentences

Das Attentat war stümperhaft geplant .

The assassination was clumsily planned.