diminuendo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
diminuendo (plural diminuendos)
- (music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
- (music) A passage having this mark
- (figurative) The gradual dying away of something.
- 1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, →ISBN, page 79:
- Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.
- 1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, →ISBN:
- Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.
- 2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:
- Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.
Translations edit
music: dynamic mark
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music: passage
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gradual dying away of something
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Adverb edit
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
- (music) played in this style
Adjective edit
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
- (music) describing a passage having this mark
Antonyms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
diminuendo
- (music) diminuendo (dynamic mark or passage)
Declension edit
Inflection of diminuendo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | diminuendo | diminuendot | ||
genitive | diminuendon | diminuendojen | ||
partitive | diminuendoa | diminuendoja | ||
illative | diminuendoon | diminuendoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | diminuendo | diminuendot | ||
accusative | nom. | diminuendo | diminuendot | |
gen. | diminuendon | |||
genitive | diminuendon | diminuendojen | ||
partitive | diminuendoa | diminuendoja | ||
inessive | diminuendossa | diminuendoissa | ||
elative | diminuendosta | diminuendoista | ||
illative | diminuendoon | diminuendoihin | ||
adessive | diminuendolla | diminuendoilla | ||
ablative | diminuendolta | diminuendoilta | ||
allative | diminuendolle | diminuendoille | ||
essive | diminuendona | diminuendoina | ||
translative | diminuendoksi | diminuendoiksi | ||
abessive | diminuendotta | diminuendoitta | ||
instructive | — | diminuendoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Adverb edit
diminuendo
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
diminuendo m (plural diminuendos)
- (music) diminuendo (a dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly)
Further reading edit
- “diminuendo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dīminuendus, gerundive of dīminuō (“to shatter; to diminish”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
diminuendo
Noun edit
diminuendo m (invariable)
- (arithmetics) Synonym of minuendo (“minuend”)
- (music) diminuendo
- Synonyms: calando, decrescendo, digradando, (rare) mancando, smorzando
Further reading edit
- diminuendo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- diminuendo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Participle edit
dīminuendō
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: di‧mi‧nu‧en‧do
Noun edit
diminuendo m (plural diminuendos)
See also edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian diminuendo.
Adverb edit
diminuendo