dilettante – English noun declension

English noun forms of dilettante

Noun: dilettante
Singulardilettante
Pluraldilettanti; dilettantes

Sample Sentences

  • A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag." [2008 March 26, Paul Graham, How to Disagree:]
  • “Call me Zack Ransom.” “And I'm Gilbert Manhandle, literary dilettante with a gambling addiction.” “Nobody's going to remember that. You can be Zandy Billups.” “Fine. But I'm still a gambling addict.” [2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (3:33 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Andy Billups (Paul Scheer):]

Nouns inflected like dilettante

dilettante, nuraghe, archmage, genie, consigliere, casone, comune, mage,

Etymology

From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”). See: Italian Nouns 'dilettante', Latin Nouns 'dēlectāre'.