abbellare

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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)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of abbellire
  2. (intransitive) to be pleasing (idiomatically translated as English like with subject and object reversed)
    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)
infinitive abbellàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund abbellàndo
present participle abbellànte past participle abbellàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present abbèllo abbèlli abbèlla abbelliàmo abbellàte abbèllano
imperfect abbellàvo abbellàvi abbellàva abbellavàmo abbellavàte abbellàvano
past historic abbellài abbellàsti abbellò abbellàmmo abbellàste abbellàrono
future abbellerò abbellerài abbellerà abbellerémo abbelleréte abbellerànno
conditional abbellerèi abbellerésti abbellerèbbe, abbellerébbe abbellerémmo abbelleréste abbellerèbbero, abbellerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present abbèlli abbèlli abbèlli abbelliàmo abbelliàte abbèllino
imperfect abbellàssi abbellàssi abbellàsse abbellàssimo abbellàste abbellàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
abbèlla abbèlli abbelliàmo abbellàte abbèllino
negative imperative non abbellàre non abbèlli non abbelliàmo non abbellàte non abbèllino

Further reading

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

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