divertire
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See also: divertiré
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier divertere, from Latin dīvertere (“to turn away”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]divertìre (first-person singular present divèrto, first-person singular past historic divertìi, past participle divertìto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- (literary) to turn away, to divert
- 1531, Niccolò Machiavelli, “Libro terzo, capitolo 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[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[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”, in Istorie fiorentine[4], page 225:
- volendo […] divertire il Conte dallo assedio
- to try and disract the Count from the siege
- to amuse, to entertain
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of divertìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Including lesser-used forms:
Conjugation of divertìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Archaic.
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