fioritura
English
Etymology
From Italian fioritura.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fjɒɹɪˈtjuːɹə/ (or as Italian, below)
- Rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Noun
fioritura (plural fioriture)
- (music) A musical embellishment or ornamentation.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 228:
- He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some times 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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 228:
Italian
Etymology
From fiorire + -tura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjo.riˈtu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: fio‧ri‧tù‧ra
Noun
fioritura f (plural fioriture)
- (also figurative) blooming, flowering, blossoming, inflorescence
- (by extension) the time of the year in which a particular flower species blooms
- 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
- floweriness, eloquence
- (informal) embellishment
Related terms
- fiore
Descendants
- → French: fioriture