abbellare
Italian
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)
- (transitive) Synonym of abbellire
- (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. 1316–1321, 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.
- see also abbellarsi
Conjugation
Further reading
- abbellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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