codificarono

Codificarono is a verb form in Italian. It is the third-person plural of the verb codificare in the passato remoto, meaning they codified or they encoded. The passato remoto is a literary past tense used primarily in written Italian to narrate events in the distant past; in everyday speech, speakers more commonly use the passato prossimo.

Etymology and form: codificare combines codice, meaning code, with the suffix -ficare, forming a verb meaning to codify or encode. The passato remoto shows regular -are verb endings, with the third-person plural ending -arono. The related forms follow the standard conjugation: io codificai, tu codificasti, lui codificò, noi codificammo, voi codificaste, loro codificarono.

Usage: Codificarono is used to describe completed actions in a past narrative, typically in literature, historical writing, or formal contexts. In contemporary spoken Italian, the passato remoto is uncommon outside of specific genres or regions; speakers usually say hanno codificato (passato prossimo) or used other tenses to indicate past encoding actions.

Examples: In a historical text, a sentence might read: Nel 1914, gli studiosi codificarono i dati raccolti. In fiction, an author might write: Gli archivisti codificarono secoli di registri, prima di districarsi nelle nuove norme.

See also: codificare, codice, codifica. The term represents a standard, regular conjugation pattern for Italian -are verbs in the passato remoto and is primarily of interest in grammar, lexicography, and literary study.