abbacinare

From a- (“to, towards”) +‎ bacino (“bowl”) +‎ -are (1^st conjugation verbal suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ab.ba.t͡ʃiˈna.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ab‧ba‧ci‧nà‧re

abbacinàre (first-person singular present abbàcino or (traditional) abbacìno[1], first-person singular past historic abbacinài, past participle abbacinàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (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, 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.]

2. (transitive, by extension) to dazzle

   Synonym: abbagliare

3. (transitive, figurative) to deceive; to deceptively attract

   Synonym: illudere

   • 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera‎, 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

4. (transitive, figurative) to stun

   Synonym: stordire

• abbacinamento
• abbacinarsi
• abbacinatore
• abbacinatrice

• 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

• abbacinerà

abbacināre

1. inflection of abbacinō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative