fioritura

English

Etymology

From Italian fioritura.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fjɒɹɪˈtjuːɹə/ (or as Italian, below)
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Noun

fioritura (plural fioriture)

1. (music) A musical embellishment or ornamentation.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 228:

     He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.

Italian

Etymology

From fiorire +‎ -tura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjo.riˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: fio‧ri‧tù‧ra

Noun

fioritura f (plural fioriture)

1. (also figurative) blooming, flowering, blossoming, inflorescence
2. (by extension) the time of the year in which a particular flower species blooms
3. staining, marking, especially of mold

   una fioratura di macchie sul muro

   a proliferation of mold (marks) on the wall

   una fioratura di bollicine sul mento

   a proliferation of pimples on the chin

4. floweriness, eloquence
5. (informal) embellishment

Related terms

• fiore

Descendants

• → French: fioriture