abbellare

From a- +‎ bello (“beautiful”) +‎ -are.

• IPA^(key): /ab.belˈla.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ab‧bel‧là‧re

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1. (transitive) Synonym of abbellire
2. (transitive with a or with no preposition (preceded by an indirect object)) to be pleasing to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of the subject and object)

   Synonym: piacere

   • c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Paradiso‎, lines 130–132; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice 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.

3. see also abbellarsi

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

• abbellerà