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scher⋅zo

  [skert-soh]
–noun, plural scher⋅zos, scher⋅zi  [skert-see] . Music.
a movement or passage of light or playful character, esp. as the second or third movement of a sonata or a symphony.
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Origin:
1850–55; < It: joke, deriv. of scherzare to joke, of Langobardic orig.
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scher·zo   (skěr'tsō)   
n.   pl. scher·zos or scher·zi (-tsē)
A lively movement, commonly in 3/4 time, introduced as a replacement for a minuet in pieces with multiple movements.

[Italian, joke, scherzo, from Old Italian scherzare, to joke, perhaps of Germanic origin.]
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scherzo 
1852, from It. scherzo, lit. "sport, joke," from scherzare "to jest or joke," from a Gmc. source (cf. M.H.G. scherzen "to jump merrily, enjoy oneself," Ger. scherz "sport"). The lively second or third movement in a symphony or sonata.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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