divertire
See also: divertiré
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From earlier divertere, from Latin dīvertere, present active infinitive of dīvertō (“I turn away”).
Pronunciation
Verb
divertire (transitive)
- (literary) to turn away, to divert
- 1531, Niccolò Machiavelli, “Libro terzo, capitolo 18 [Third book, chapter 18]”, in Discorsi sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio[1], Nicolò Bettoni, published 1824, page 152:
- non veggendo altro modo a salvarla, diliberarono di divertire quella guerra
- Not seeing other way to save it, they decided to divert that war
- 16th century, Torquato Tasso, Discorsi del poema eroico [Discussions on the Heroic Poem][2], collected in Discorsi di Torquato Tasso - Tomo II, Niccolò Capurro, published 1823, Libro primo, page 13:
- la poesia ci divertisce da molti delitti
- poetry turns us away from many crimes
- 1867, Ippolito Nievo, Le confessioni di un italiano [An Italian's Confessions][3], Treves-Treccani-Tumminelli, published 1931, page 107:
- Egli si studiò allora di divertire il discorso da quella faccenda.
- He then pondered how to divert the discussion from that matter.
- (literary) to distract, to divert
- 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, “Libro quinto [Fifth book]”, in Istorie fiorentine[4], page 225:
- volendo […] diuertire il Conte dallo aſſedio
- to try and disract the Count from the siege
- to amuse, to entertain.
Conjugation
- The following conjugation is now obsolete.