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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
gradual dying away of something
Adverb
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
- (music) played in this style
Adjective
diminuendo (comparative more diminuendo, superlative most diminuendo)
- (music) describing a passage having this mark
Antonyms
Finnish
Etymology
< Italian diminuendo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdiminuendo/,
- Rhymes: -endo
- Syllabification(key): di‧mi‧nu‧en‧do
Noun
diminuendo
- (music) diminuendo (dynamic mark or passage)
Declension
Adverb
diminuendo
- diminuendo
- Synonyms: heiketen, hiljeten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Pronunciation
Noun
diminuendo m (plural diminuendos)
- (music) diminuendo (a dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly)
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dīminuendus, gerundive of dīminuō (“to shatter; to diminish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.mi.nuˈɛn.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛndo
- Hyphenation: di‧mi‧nu‧èn‧do
Verb
diminuendo
- gerund of diminuire
Noun
diminuendo m (invariable)
- (arithmetics) Synonym of minuendo (“minuend”)
- (music) diminuendo
- Synonyms: calando, decrescendo, digradando, (rare) mancando, smorzando
Further reading
- 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
Latin
Participle
dīminuendō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dīminuendus
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.mi.nuˈẽ.du/ , (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒi.miˈnwẽ.du/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.mi.nuˈẽ.du/ , (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒi.miˈnwẽ.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.mi.nuˈẽ.do/ , (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒi.miˈnwẽ.do/
- Hyphenation: di‧mi‧nu‧en‧do
Noun
diminuendo m (plural diminuendos)
- minuend
- Synonym: (Brazil) minuendo
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Italian diminuendo.
Adverb
diminuendo
- diminuendo