apporre

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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
    • early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XVI”, in Paradiso, lines 67–69:
      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
    • 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza Novella settima”, in Decameron:
      Egli è il vero che nella mia giovanezza io amai sommamente lo sventurato giovane la cui morte è apposta al mio marito [].
      True it is that in my youth I loved over all the ill-fortuned youth whose death is laid to my husband's charge
  3. (archaic) to object

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