Noun: scherzo
| Singular | scherzo |
| Plural | scherzos; scherzi |
Sample Sentences
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At seven Val knocked – three shorts and one long, out of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Fifth – and I rushed to open. [1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:]
Nouns inflected like scherzo
sbirro,
vetturino,
capocollo,
clavicembalo,
decrescendo,
scherzando,
bambino,
concerto,
descrescendo,
zufolo,
stornello,
cavaletto,
inamorato,
zuffolo,
secondo,
rifacimento,
paesano,
pianissimo,
palazzo,
pandoro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Italian Nouns '
scherzo'.