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) (archaic or literary)
- (transitive) synonym of abbellire
- (intransitive) to be pleasing [(with the indirect object usually preceding the verb and the subject following) with a or indirect object ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated as English like with subject and object reversed) [auxiliary essere]
- Synonym: piacere
- 1316–c. 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.
Conjugation
Conjugation of abbellàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
- abbellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana