abbellare

Italian

Etymology

From a- + bello (beautiful) + -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ab.belˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧bel‧là‧re

Verb

abbellàre (first-person singular present abbèllo, first-person singular past historic abbellài, past participle abbellàto, auxiliary avére) (literary)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of abbellire
  2. (transitive with a or with no preposition (preceded by an indirect object)) to be pleasing to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of the subject and object)
    Synonym: piacere
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 130–132; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Opera naturale è ch’uom favella; ¶ ma così o così, natura lascia ¶ poi fare a voi secondo che v’abbella.
      A natural action is it that man speaks; but whether thus or thus, nature leaves to your own art, as you like it.
  3. see also abbellarsi

Conjugation

Further reading

  • abbellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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