rifiorire

Italian

Etymology

From ri- + fiorire.

Verb

rifiorìre (first-person singular present rifiorìsco, first-person singular past historic rifiorìi, past participle rifiorìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive, also intransitive in the literal sense "to bloom again") avére)

  1. (intransitive) to blossom again, to bloom again, to reflower [auxiliary essere or avere]
  2. (intransitive, figurative) to flourish again, to improve [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive) to appear again (of a stain) [auxiliary essere]
  4. (transitive, literary) to cause to bloom again
  5. (transitive) to refine, to retouch (a work of art)
  6. (transitive) to regravel (a road)
  7. (transitive) to shore up (a seawall) with new rocks

Conjugation

Further reading

  • rifiorire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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