"scherzo" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈskɛətsəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈskɜːt-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈskɛəɹ(ˌ)tsoʊ/ [General-American], /ˈskɛəɹtˌsoʊ/ [General-American] Forms: scherzos [plural], scherzi [plural]
enPR: skĕrʹtsō [General-American] (note: '), skĕrtʹsō [General-American] (note: ') Rhymes: -ɛəɹtsəʊ, -ɜː(ɹ)tsəʊ, -ɛə(ɹ)tsəʊ Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|scherzo||joke, play}} Italian scherzo (“joke, play”), {{der|en|lng|*skerzan||to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest}} Lombardic *skerzan (“to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skertaną||to hop, jump}} Proto-Germanic *skertaną (“to hop, jump”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)kerǝd-||to dance, jump}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”), {{cog|gmh|scherzen||to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down}} Middle High German scherzen (“to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down”), {{cog|de|scherzen||to joke}} German scherzen (“to joke”), {{cog|no|skjerta||to joke}} Norwegian skjerta (“to joke”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|scherzi}} 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. Categories (topical): Music Related terms: scherzando, scherzino Translations (music): ске́рцо (skérco) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 諧謔曲 (Chinese Mandarin), 谐谑曲 (xiéxüèqǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 詼諧曲 (Chinese Mandarin), 诙谐曲 (huīxiéqǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), Scherzo [neuter] (German), scherzo (Italian), スケルツォ (sukerutso) (Japanese), 諧謔曲 (kaigyakukyoku) (alt: かいぎゃくきょく) (Japanese), скерцо (skerso) (Kazakh), 스케르초 (seukereucho) (Korean), اسکرتسو (Persian), scherzo [neuter] (Polish), scherzo [masculine] (Portuguese), scherzo [neuter] (Romanian), ске́рцо (skérco) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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      "roman": "seukereucho",
      "sense": "music",
      "word": "스케르초"
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      "word": "ске́рцо"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.