divertire

See also: divertiré

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier divertere, from Latin dīvertere (to turn away).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.verˈti.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: di‧ver‧tì‧re

Verb

divertìre (first-person singular present divèrto, first-person singular past historic divertìi, past participle divertìto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (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, 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], 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], 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.
  2. (literary) to distract, to divert
  3. to amuse, to entertain

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