abbacinare
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom a- (“to, towards”) + bacino (“bowl”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editabbacinàre (first-person singular present abbàcino or (traditional) abbacìno[1], first-person singular past historic abbacinài, past participle abbacinàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, archaic) to abacinate (to blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes)
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro terzo, Capitolo XV. Come Carlo Magno re di Francia fu fatto imperadore di Roma. [Third Book, Chapter 15: How Charlemagne, King of France, became Emperor of Rome]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicles], published 1991:
- in Roma presono papa Leone terzo che allora regnava, andando alla processione delle Letanie, e abacinarogli gli occhi, e tagliaro la lingua, e cacciarollo di Roma.
- In Rome, they took the then-reigning Pope Leo III on his way to the Procession of the Litanies, abacinated his eyes, cut off his tongue, and banished him from Rome.
- [1574, Vincenzo Borghini, Annotationi et discorsi sopra alcuni luoghi del Decameron[1], page 73:
- Ma l’Abbacinare è il medesimo che Accecare: et perche si faceva con un Bacino rovente, che avvicinato a gl’occhi, tenuti aperti per forza; concentrandosi il calore, struggeva que pannicelli, et riseccava l’humidità, che come un’uva è intorno alla pupilla, et la ricopriva di una cotal nuvola, che gli toglieva la vista
- But abacinating is the same as blinding, for it was carried out by using a red-hot vessel that [was] put close to the eyes, forcibly kept open. The concentrated heat would destroy those tissues and dry up the moisture which, like on a grape, is around the pupil, and would cover it in such a clouding that it would leave it blind.]
- (transitive, by extension) to dazzle
- Synonym: abbagliare
- (transitive, figurative) to deceive; to deceptively attract
- Synonym: illudere
- 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera[2], published 1726, page 233:
- […] mi par tuttavia vedermi al fianco
Un che colle parole inorpellate
M’incanti, e m’abbacini- It appears to me I have by my side one that, with ornate words, charms and deceives me
- (transitive, figurative) to stun
- Synonym: stordire
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of abbacinàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Traditional.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ abbacino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
edit- abbacinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “abbacinare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editabbacināre
- inflection of abbacinō:
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