Etymology

accelerando

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Today it means: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed. Full definition →

Italian accelerando ← Latin accelero
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromaccelero
  2. Italian · borrowed fromaccelerando
  3. English todayaccelerando

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

Words from the same roots

Latinaccelero all →

accelero-

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.