aborrire
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin abhorrēre, derived from ab- (“from, away from”) + horreō (“tremble; dread”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editaborrìre (first-person singular present aborrìsco or abòrro, first-person singular past historic aborrìi, past participle aborrìto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to abhor, to detest, to loathe
- Synonyms: (literary) abominare, detestare, (literary) esecrare, odiare, (literary) sprezzare
- Antonyms: adorare, amare, ammirare
- c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Paradiso [Heaven][1], lines 70–75; 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:
- E come a lume acuto si disonna
per lo spirto visivo che ricorre
a lo splendor che va di gonna in gonna,
e lo svegliato ciò che vede aborre,
si nescïa è la sùbita vigilia
fin che la stimativa non soccorre- And as at some keen light one wakes from sleep by reason of the visual spirit that runs unto the splendour passed from coat to coat, and he who wakes abhors what he sees, so all unconscious is his sudden waking, until the judgment comes to his aid
- (intransitive) to recoil [with da ‘from’] [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of aborrìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
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editFurther reading
edit- aborrire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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