apporre

From Latin appōnere, present active infinitive of appōnō (“I appoint; I place near”), derived from ad- (“to”) + pōnō (“I put”).

• IPA^(key): /apˈpor.re/, [äpˈpo̞r̺r̺e]
• Rhymes: -orre
• Hyphenation: ap‧pór‧re

apporre

1. (transitive) to add, to affix, to append
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, lines 67–69, page 289:

     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]

   Synonym: aggiungere

   Synonyms: levare, togliere

2. (transitive, figuratively, literary) to impute, to attribute, to ascribe
   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giorno Terzo [Day the Third]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 89:

     Egli è il vero, che nella mia giovanezza io amai ſommamente lo ſuenturato 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

   Synonyms: attribuire, imputare

3. (transitive, obsolete) to object

• porre

• preparo, preparò