scherzo.
joke, jest, trick, hoax, frolic
Meaning & usage
joke, jest, trick, hoax, frolic
joke, trifle, cinch (something easy to do)
scherzo (piece of music played in a playful manner)
Where this word comes from
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”).
first-person singular present indicative of scherzare
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