## Meanings
1. To make someone want to have or do something, especially something they should avoid.
2. To try to persuade someone to do something by offering a reward or pleasure.

## Examples
- The smell of fresh bread tempted me to buy a loaf.
- They tempted him to join the team with a high salary.

## Derived Forms
- attempt
- temptation
- tempter
- temptful
- temptless
- temptly
- temptress
- temptsome
- temptuous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tempten
- Root: tempter
- Root: tempto

## Etymology
From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tendere (“to stretch”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).

## AI Etymology
Tempt is from Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tendere (“to stretch”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”). In present-day use, it can mean to make someone want to have or do something, especially something they should avoid, or to try to persuade someone to do something by offering a reward or pleasure.

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