accelerando

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑˌkʃɛl.əˈɹɑn.doʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ætʃɛləˈɹændəʊ/, /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
2. (music) A passage having this mark.
3. (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
   • 2012, George Steiner, The Poetry of Thought, p. 195:

     The accelerando of the sciences and of technology, their mathematization have beggared both the reach and the veracity of natural language.

Adverb

accelerando (not comparable)

1. (music) With a gradual increase in speed.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.se.le.ʁɑ̃.do/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Adverb

accelerando

1. accelerando

Further reading

• “accelerando”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando (“accelerating”).

Adverb

accelerando

1. (music) accelerando

   Synonym: dipercepat

Further reading

• “accelerando”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Verb

accelerando

1. gerund of accelerare

Adverb

accelerando

1. accelerating

Latin

Participle

accelerandō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of accelerandus

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando.

Adverb

accelerando

1. (music) accelerando

Swedish

Adverb

accelerando (not comparable)

1. (music) accelerando

Noun

accelerando n

1. (music) a passage played accelerando

Declension

Declension of accelerando

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	accelerando	accelerandos
	definite	accelerandot	accelerandots
plural	indefinite	accelerandon	accelerandons
	definite	accelerandona	accelerandonas

References

• “accelerando”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “accelerando”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)