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English

Alternative forms

• dilettant

Etymology

From Italian dilettante, prop. present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin d?lect?re (“to delight”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?l??t?nti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?l??t?nt/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• dilettantish, dilettanteish
• dilettantism, dilettanteism

Related terms

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

Translations

See also

• amateur

Adjective

dilettante (comparative more dilettante, superlative most dilettante)

1. Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

Translations

Further reading

• 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. -t?).
• dilettante” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.l?.t??t/

Noun

dilettante m or f (plural dilettantes)

1. dilettante

Interlingua

Noun

dilettante (plural dilettantes)

1. dilettante

Italian

Etymology

From dilettare (“to delight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.let?tan.te/

Noun

dilettante m or f (plural dilettanti)

1. amateur
2. dilettante

Descendants

• ? English: dilettante
• ? German: Dilettant

Adjective

dilettante (plural dilettanti)

1. amateur

Related terms

• dilettevole

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?bi
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.bi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?.bi/

Etymology 1

Shortened from hobby-horse, from Middle English hoby, hobyn, hobin (“small horse, pony”), from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin ("a nag, hobby"; > Modern French aubin, Italian ubino), of Germanic origin: from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hupp?n? (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hop, hobble.

The meaning of hobby-horse shifted from "small horse, pony" to "child's toy riding horse" to "favorite pastime or avocation" with the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere". Possibly originally from a proper name for a horse, a diminutive of Robert or Robin (compare dobbin).

Noun

hobby (plural hobbies)

1. An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

2. (equestrianism) An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby

Synonyms

• (activity done for enjoyment in spare time): avocation, pastime; See also Thesaurus:hobby

Derived terms

• hobbyist (noun)

Related terms

• hobbyhorse (noun)
• hobelar/hobeler

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French hobet, from Medieval Latin hop?tus, diminutive of harpe.

Noun

hobby (plural hobbies)

1. Any of four species of small falcons in the genus Falco, especially Falco subbuteo.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 323:

     He hawked – from nearby Esher, Richard Fox sent a servant with a hobby, which Henry received enthusiastically – and hunted, sending a present of freshly slaughtered deer to Princess Mary.

Derived terms

• African hobby, Falco cuvierii
• Australian hobby, Falco longipennis
• Eurasian hobby, Falco subbuteo
• Oriental hobby, Falco severus

Translations

See also

• hobby lantern

Catalan

Etymology

From English hobby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?bi/, [?h??i]

Noun

hobby m (plural hobbies)

1. hobby

   Synonym: passatemps

References

Further reading

• “hobby” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “hobby” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Czech

Noun

hobby n

1. hobby (activity)

Danish

Etymology

From English hobby.

Noun

hobby c (singular definite hobbyen, plural indefinite hobbyer)

1. hobby (activity)

Inflection

Synonyms

• fritidsinteresse

Further reading

• “hobby” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English hobby.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hob?by

Noun

hobby m (plural hobby's, diminutive hobby'tje n)

1. hobby (activity)

Synonyms

• liefhebberij

Finnish

Noun

hobby

1. (nonstandard) hobby (activity)

Declension

Synonyms

• harrastus

French

Etymology

From English hobby.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /?.bi/

Noun

hobby m (plural hobbies or hobbys)

1. hobby (activity)

Synonyms

• passe-temps

Further reading

• “hobby” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

hobby

1. hobby (activity)

Italian

Etymology

From English hobby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b.bi/

Noun

hobby m (invariable)

1. hobby (activity)

Related terms

• hobbysto
• hobbystico

Further reading

• hobby in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hobby.

Noun

hobby m (definite singular hobbyen, indefinite plural hobbyer, definite plural hobbyene)

1. a hobby (leisure activity)

References

• “hobby” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hobby.

Noun

hobby m (definite singular hobbyen, indefinite plural hobbyar, definite plural hobbyane)

1. a hobby (leisure activity)

References

• “hobby” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hobby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?b.b?i/, /?x?b.b?/

Noun

hobby n (indeclinable)

1. hobby (activity)

Synonyms

• pasja
• konik
• zami?owanie

Related terms

• hobbista
• hobbistka
• hobbysta
• hobbystka
• hobbistyczny
• hobbystyczny
• hobbistycznie
• hobbystycznie

Further reading

• hobby in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hobby.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?h?.bi/

Noun

hobby m (plural hobbies)

1. hobby (an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time)

   Synonym: passatempo

Further reading

• “hobby” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English hobby.

Noun

hobby n (plural hobby-uri)

1. hobby

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English hobby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xobi/, [?xo.??i]

Noun

hobby m (plural hobbys)

1. hobby (activity)

Further reading

• “hobby” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From English hobby.

Noun

hobby c

1. hobby (activity)

Further reading

• hobby in Svensk ordbok.