The story
- Latin · derived fromtemptare
- Old French · derived fromtempter
- Middle English · inherited fromtempten
- English todaytempt
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”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.