apporre

Inherited from Latin appōnere (“to appoint; to place near”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ porre.

• IPA^(key): /apˈpor.re/
• Rhymes: -orre
• Hyphenation: ap‧pór‧re

appórre (first-person singular present appóngo, first-person singular past historic appósi, past participle appósto or appòsto, first-person singular imperfect apponévo, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. to add, to affix, to append

   Synonym: aggiungere

   Antonyms: levare, togliere

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVI”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 67–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Sempre la confusion de le persone ¶ principio fu del mal de la cittade, ¶ come del vostro il cibo che s’appone […].

     Ever the intermingling of the people has been the source of malady in cities, as in the body food that appends [to previously eaten food in the body].

2. (figurative, literary) to impute, to attribute, to ascribe

   Synonyms: attribuire, imputare

   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     Egli è il vero che nella mia giovanezza io amai sommamente lo sventurato giovane la cui morte è apposta al mio marito […].

     True it is that in my youth I loved over all the ill-fortuned youth whose death is laid to my husband's charge

3. (archaic) to object

• apposizione
• porre

• preparo, preparò, rapperò