scherzo

Borrowed from Italian scherzo (“joke, play”), from scherzare (“to joke, jest”), from Lombardic *skerzan (“to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest”), from Proto-Germanic *skertaną (“to hop, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”). Akin to Middle High German scherzen (“to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down”) (modern German scherzen (“to joke”), Scherz), Norwegian skjerta (“to joke”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskɛətsəʊ/, /ˈskɜːt-/
• (General American) enPR: skĕrʹtsō('), skĕrtʹsō('), IPA^(key): /ˈskɛəɹ(ˌ)tsoʊ/, /ˈskɛəɹtˌsoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹtsəʊ, -ɜː(ɹ)tsəʊ, -ɛə(ɹ)tsəʊ
• Hyphenation: scher‧zo

scherzo (plural scherzos or scherzi)

1. (music) A piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     At seven Val knocked – three shorts and one long, out of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Fifth – and I rushed to open.

• scherzando
• scherzino

• scherzo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

scherzo m (plural scherzos)

1. scherzo

• “scherzo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Deverbal from scherzare (“to joke, play, jest”) +‎ -o, from Old Italian scherzare, borrowed from Lombardic *skerzan (“to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest”) from Proto-Germanic *skertaną (“to hop, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”). Akin to Middle High German scherzen (“to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down”) (German scherzen (“to joke”); Scherz (“joke, sport”)), Norwegian skjerta (“to joke”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsker.t͡so/
• Rhymes: -ertso
• Hyphenation: schér‧zo

scherzo m (plural scherzi)

1. joke, jest, trick, hoax, frolic

   Synonyms: beffa, battuta, derisione, scherno

2. (figurative) joke, trifle, cinch (something easy to do)
3. (music) scherzo (piece of music played in a playful manner)

• scherzando
• scherzare
• scherzoso

• → English: scherzo
• → German: Scherzo

scherzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of scherzare

Unadapted borrowing from Italian scherzo.

scherzo n (plural scherzouri)

1. scherzo