appulcrare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]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)
- (transitive) to put (something) for the purpose of embellishment [with direct object ‘something e.g. words’ and a ‘onto something else’] (idiomatically translated as English embellish with direct and indirect object reversed)
- 1300s–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] Conjugation of appulcràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
References
[edit]- “appulcrare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 593a
- appulcrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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