dilettante

• dilettant

From Italian dilettante, prop. present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪləˈtɒnti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt/

dilettante (plural dilettanti or dilettantes)

1. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.

   Synonyms: amateur, dabbler

   Antonym: professional

2. (sometimes offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.

• dilettantish, dilettanteish
• dilettantism, dilettanteism

• delectable
• delight
• dildo (by way of 'diletto')

• amateur

dilettante (comparative more dilettante, superlative most dilettante)

1. Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler (1926; Oxford at the Clarendon Press; London: Humphrey Milford), page 115
  dilettante. Pl. -ti (pron. -tē).
• dilettante” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

• dilettante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dilettante in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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dilettante m or f (plural dilettantes)

1. dilettante

dilettante (plural dilettantes)

1. dilettante

From dilettare (“to delight”).

dilettante m or f (plural dilettanti)

1. amateur
2. dilettante

dilettante (masculine and feminine plural dilettanti)

1. amateur

• dilettevole