Entertaiment
Entertaiment
A clown at a child’s birthday party, the Broadway show you’re seeing this weekend, or your friends fighting over the last potato chip–anything that gives you pleasure and distracts you from your everyday worries is entertainment. It comes from the Middle English word entretenement, which is derived from the Medieval Latin intertenere. The prefix inter means “inside,” and the suffix tenere, which is derived from the Indo-European root ten, means to hold or stretch something.
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