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abbellare

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Italian

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    Verb

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

    1. (transitive) synonym of abbellire
    2. (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

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    Further reading

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

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