fiorì

Fiorì is the third-person singular form of the Italian verb fiorire in the passato remoto, meaning it bloomed or flourished. The verb fiorire is used to describe the appearance of flowers or the development and thriving of something, often in a figurative sense as well as a literal one.

In modern Italian, the passato remoto, including fiorì, is mainly found in literary, historical, or formal contexts. It is rarely used in everyday speech, where the passato prossimo (è fiorito) or other tenses would typically convey past events. Fiorì is therefore most commonly encountered in novels, poems, chronicles, and other text types that aim to evoke a past era.

Etymology and related forms: fiorire derives from the Latin florere, related to the noun fiore (flower) from Latin flos, floris. The form fiorì belongs to a standard pattern of -ire verbs in the passato remoto, with other forms such as fioristi, fiorì, fiorimmo, fioriste, fiorirono completing the full conjugation.

Example usage: Il giardino fiorì di colori variegati, offrendo uno spettacolo di petali e profumi. In historical narration, one might encounter lines describing a landscape that fiorì after a season of care and rain.

See also: fiorire, fiore, fiorito.