appulcrare

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Italian

Etymology

Derived from a- (“to, towards”) +‎ Classical Latin pulcher (“fair, beautiful”) +‎ -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix). Coined by Italian author Dante Alighieri for his work Inferno.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.pulˈkra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ap‧pul‧crà‧re

Verb

appulcràre (first-person singular present appùlcro, first-person singular past historic appulcrài, past participle appulcràto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, literary, very rare, now humorous)

  1. (transitive) to put (something) for the purpose of embellishment (idiomatically translated as English embellish with direct and indirect object reversed)
    Synonyms: abbellire con, ornare con
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 58–60; 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:
      Mal dare e mal tener lo mondo pulcro
      ha tolto loro, e posti a questa zuffa:
      qual ella sia, parole non ci appulcro.
      Wrong giving and wrong keeping has taken the fair world away from them, and placed them in this scuffle: whatever it be, I do not embellish it with words.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of appulcràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive appulcràre
auxiliary verb avére gerund appulcràndo
present participle appulcrànte past participle appulcràto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present appùlcro appùlcri appùlcra appulcriàmo appulcràte appùlcrano
imperfect appulcràvo appulcràvi appulcràva appulcravàmo appulcravàte appulcràvano
past historic appulcrài appulcràsti appulcrò appulcràmmo appulcràste appulcràrono
future appulcrerò appulcrerài appulcrerà appulcrerémo appulcreréte appulcrerànno
conditional appulcrerèi appulcrerésti appulcrerèbbe, appulcrerébbe appulcrerémmo appulcreréste appulcrerèbbero, appulcrerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present appùlcri appùlcri appùlcri appulcriàmo appulcriàte appùlcrino
imperfect appulcràssi appulcràssi appulcràsse appulcràssimo appulcràste appulcràssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
appùlcra appùlcri appulcriàmo appulcràte appùlcrino
negative imperative non appulcràre non appùlcri non appulcriàmo non appulcràte non appùlcrino

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