accelerando

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑ.ˌkʃɛl.ə.ˈɹɑn.doʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

Noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos)

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

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Adverb

accelerando

1. accelerando

Further reading

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

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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	accelerando	accelerandot	accelerandon	accelerandona
Genitive	accelerandos	accelerandots	accelerandons	accelerandonas

References

• accelerando in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• accelerando in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)