crescendo
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: cres‧cen‧do
Noun
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crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes)
- (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
- (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
- Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
- (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
- Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
- 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
Usage notes
[edit]- The musical sense indicates that the figurative sense is an increase rather than the climax of the increase. The use of this word to mean the climax of an increase is nonstandard but commonplace.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “music”): decrescendo, diminuendo
- (antonym(s) of “the climax of a gradual increase”): climax, conclusion
Translations
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Verb
[edit]crescendo (third-person singular simple present crescendoes, present participle crescendoing, simple past and past participle crescendoed)
- To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
- The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
- 2021 November 1, Haley Nahman, “I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself”, in The Guardian[2]:
- And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.
Adverb
[edit]crescendo (not comparable)
- (music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crescendo n
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | crescendo | crescenda |
genitive | crescenda | crescend |
dative | crescendu | crescendům |
accusative | crescendo | crescenda |
vocative | crescendo | crescenda |
locative | crescendu | crescendech |
instrumental | crescendem | crescendy |
Further reading
[edit]- “crescendo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “crescendo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “crescendo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crescendo
- crescendo (instruction to play gradually more loudly)
- (rare) crescendo (gradual increase, especially to a dramatic climax)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of crescendo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | crescendo | crescendot | |
genitive | crescendon | crescendojen | |
partitive | crescendoa | crescendoja | |
illative | crescendoon | crescendoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | crescendo | crescendot | |
accusative | nom. | crescendo | crescendot |
gen. | crescendon | ||
genitive | crescendon | crescendojen | |
partitive | crescendoa | crescendoja | |
inessive | crescendossa | crescendoissa | |
elative | crescendosta | crescendoista | |
illative | crescendoon | crescendoihin | |
adessive | crescendolla | crescendoilla | |
ablative | crescendolta | crescendoilta | |
allative | crescendolle | crescendoille | |
essive | crescendona | crescendoina | |
translative | crescendoksi | crescendoiksi | |
abessive | crescendotta | crescendoitta | |
instructive | — | crescendoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “crescendo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian crescendo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]crescendo
Noun
[edit]crescendo m (plural crescendos)
- (music) crescendo
- (figurative) gradual increase, crescendo
- un crescendo de difficulté ― a crescendo of difficulty
Further reading
[edit]- “crescendo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin crēscendum (“increasing, growing”), gerund of crēscō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]crescendo
Noun
[edit]crescendo m (invariable)
- (music) crescendo (instruction to play gradually more loudly)
- (figurative) crescendo (gradual increase)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- crescendo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kreːsˈken.doː/, [kreːs̠ˈkɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kreʃˈʃen.do/, [kreʃˈʃɛn̪d̪o]
Participle
[edit]crēscendō
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]crescendo m (plural crescendos)
Verb
[edit]crescendo
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Italian crescendo.
Adverb
[edit]crescendo
Noun
[edit]crescendo n (plural crescendouri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) crescendo | crescendoul | (niște) crescendouri | crescendourile |
genitive/dative | (unui) crescendo | crescendoului | (unor) crescendouri | crescendourilor |
vocative | crescendoule | crescendourilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Italian crescendo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɾeʃenˌdo} | ˈ{es pɾ/ [kɾe.ʃẽn̪ˌd̪o} | ˈ{es pɾ]
- IPA(key): /kɾeˈt͡ʃendo/ [kɾeˈt͡ʃẽn̪.d̪o]
- Rhymes: -endo
Noun
[edit]crescendo m (plural crescendos)
- crescendo
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “crescendo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]crescendo n
Declension
[edit]Declension of crescendo | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | crescendo | crescendot | crescendon | crescendona |
Genitive | crescendos | crescendots | crescendons | crescendonas |
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