divertimento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, from divertire (“to amuse, to entertain”), from Latin dīvertere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˌvɜːtɪˈmɛntəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dəˌvɝtəˈmɛntoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧ti‧men‧to

Noun

divertimento (plural divertimentos or divertimenti)

1. (music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

Related terms

• divertissement

Translations

eighteenth-century composition in several short movements

• Arabic: دِيفِرْتِمِنْتُو m (dīfirtimintū), دِفِرْتِمِنْتُو m (difirtimintū)
• Armenian: դիվերտիսմենտ (hy) (divertisment)
• Basque: divertimento (eu)
• Bulgarian: дивертисмент n (divertisment), дивертименто n (divertimento)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬉遊曲 / 嬉游曲 (xīyóuqū)

• Czech: divertimento (cs) n
• Estonian: divertisment
• Finnish: divertimento
• French: divertimento (fr) m
• German: Divertimento m
• Hebrew: דִיבֶרְטִימֶנְטוֹ m (divertiménto)
• Italian: divertimento (it) m
• Japanese: ディヴェルティメント (diverutimento), ディヴェルティスマン (diverutisuman), 嬉遊曲 (ja), 喜遊曲 (きゆうきょく, kiyūkyoku)
• Kazakh: дивертисмент (divertisment)
• Lithuanian: divertismentas m
• Polish: divertimento (pl) n
• Russian: дивертисме́нт (ru) m (divertismént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дивертимѐнто m

  Latin: divertimènto (sh) m

• Spanish: divertimento m
• Swedish: divertimento (sv) n
• Thai: ดีแวร์ตีเมนโต (dii-wɛɛr-dtii-meen-dtoo)
• Ukrainian: дивертисме́нт m (dyvertysmént)

Italian

Etymology

From divertire (“to amuse, to entertain”, from Latin dīvertere) +‎ -mento (“-ment”); cognate with Piedmontese divertiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ver.tiˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧ti‧mén‧to

Noun

divertimento m (plural divertimenti)

1. fun, amusement, entertainment, distraction

   Synonyms: diletto, svago

2. (music) divertimento

Anagrams

• rimettendovi

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian divertimento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛr.tiˈmɛn.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɔ
• Syllabification: di‧ver‧ti‧men‧to

Noun

divertimento n (indeclinable)

1. (music) divertimento

Declension

Declension of divertimento

	singular	plural
nominative	divertimento	divertimenta
genitive	divertimenta	divertimenet
dative	divertimentu	divertimentom
accusative	divertimento	divertimenta
instrumental	divertimentem	divertimentami
locative	divertimencie	divertimentach
vocative	divertimento	divertimenta

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• “divertimento”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

From divertir (“to amuse, to entertain”, from Latin dīvertere) +‎ -mento (“-ment”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/ [d͡ʒi.veh.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/ [d͡ʒi.veh.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veɾ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/ [d͡ʒi.veχ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veɻ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.veʁ.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.to/ [d͡ʒi.veh.t͡ʃiˈmẽ.to]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.vɨɾ.tiˈmẽ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.vɨɾ.tiˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.bɨɾ.tiˈmẽ.tu/ [di.βɨɾ.tiˈmẽ.tu]

• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧ti‧men‧to

Noun

divertimento m (plural divertimentos)

1. fun, amusement, entertainment

Further reading

• “divertimento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “divertimento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dibeɾtiˈmento/ [d̪i.β̞eɾ.t̪iˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: di‧ver‧ti‧men‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian, from divertire (“to amuse, to entertain”), from Latin dīvertere. Cognate to Spanish divertimiento.

Noun

divertimento m (plural divertimentos)

1. (music) divertimento

Etymology 2

From divertir (“to amuse, to entertain”, from Latin dīvertere) +‎ -mento (“-ment”).

Noun

divertimento m (plural divertimentos)

1. alternative form of divertimiento (“amusement, entertainment”)

Further reading

• “divertimento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025