allietare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]allietàre (first-person singular present allièto or alliéto[1], first-person singular past historic allietài, past participle allietàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to make happy, to cheer up, to entertain
- Synonyms: rallegrare, animare, divertire, vivacizzare
- (transitive, by extension) to make seem more pleasant, cosy (of a place)
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Dopo nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 79:
- L'abbondanza di finestre faceva sì che la gran sala fosse allietata da una luce continua anche se si era in un pomeriggio d'inverno.
- The abundance of windows made it so the large hall was made more enjoyable by a continuous light even though it was a winter afternoon.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of allietàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ allieto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)