Where does “accelerando” come from?
accelerando (English) comes from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelerō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
accelerando (English): A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be...
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- A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be...
Ancestry of “accelerando”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accelerando | gerund of accelerare; accelerating |
| 2 | Latin | accelerō | to quicken, hasten, speed up, accelerate |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |