appulcrare

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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 with a (+ object being embellished)) to embellish with (something); to put (something; e.g. words) on (something else) for embellishment
    Synonyms: abbellire con, ornare con
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 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[edit]

References[edit]

  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “appulcrare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 1, page 593
  • appulcrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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