abbacinare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- (to, towards) +‎ bacino (bowl) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ab.ba.t͡ʃiˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ba‧ci‧nà‧re

Verb

abbacinàre (first-person singular present abbàcino or (traditional) abbacìno[1], first-person singular past historic abbacinài, past participle abbacinàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, archaic) to abacinate (to blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes)
    • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro terzo, Capitolo XV. Come Carlo Magno re di Francia fu fatto imperadore di Roma. [Third Book, Chapter 15: How Charlemagne, King of France, became Emperor of Rome]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicles], published 1991:
      in Roma presono papa Leone terzo che allora regnava, andando alla processione delle Letanie, e abacinarogli gli occhi, e tagliaro la lingua, e cacciarollo di Roma.
      In Rome, they took the then-reigning Pope Leo III on his way to the Procession of the Litanies, abacinated his eyes, cut off his tongue, and banished him from Rome.
    • , page 73:
      Ma l’Abbacinare è il medesimo che Accecare: et perche si faceva con un Bacino rovente, che avvicinato a gl’occhi, tenuti aperti per forza; concentrandosi il calore, struggeva que pannicelli, et riseccava l’humidità, che come un’uva è intorno alla pupilla, et la ricopriva di una cotal nuvola, che gli toglieva la vista
      But abacinating is the same as blinding, for it was carried out by using a red-hot vessel that put close to the eyes, forcibly kept open. The concentrated heat would destroy those tissues and dry up the moisture which, like on a grape, is around the pupil, and would cover it in such a clouding that it would leave it blind.]
  2. (transitive, by extension) to dazzle
    Synonym: abbagliare
  3. (transitive, figurative) to deceive; to deceptively attract
    Synonym: illudere
    • 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera, published 1726, page 233:
      [] mi par tuttavia vedermi al fianco
      Un che colle parole inorpellate
      M’incanti, e m’abbacini
      It appears to me I have by my side one that, with ornate words, charms and deceives me
  4. (transitive, figurative) to stun
    Synonym: stordire

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References

  1. ^ abbacino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

Verb

abbacināre

  1. inflection of abbacinō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative