Italian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin appōnere (to appoint; to place near). By surface analysis, a- +‎ porre.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /apˈpor.re/
  • Rhymes: -orre
  • Hyphenation: ap‧pór‧re

Verb edit

appórre (first-person singular present appóngo, first-person singular past historic appósi, past participle appósto or appòsto, first-person singular imperfect apponévo, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to add, to affix, to append
    Synonym: aggiungere
    Antonyms: levare, togliere
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVI”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 67–69; 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:
      Sempre la confusion de le persone ¶ principio fu del mal de la cittade, ¶ come del vostro il cibo che s’appone [].
      Ever the intermingling of the people has been the source of malady in cities, as in the body food that appends [to previously eaten food in the body].
  2. (figurative, literary) to impute, to attribute, to ascribe
    Synonyms: attribuire, imputare
  3. (archaic) to object

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