abbellare

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

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

abbellàre (first-person singular present abbèllo, first-person singular past historic abbellài, past participle abbellàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic or literary)

1. (transitive) Synonym of abbellire
2. (intransitive) to be pleasing [(with the indirect object usually preceding the verb and the subject following) with a or indirect object ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated as English like with subject and object reversed) [auxiliary essere]

   Synonym: piacere

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 130–132; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. 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.

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

• abbellerà