Where does “rallentando” come from?
rallentando (English) comes from Italian rallentando, from Italian rallentare, from Italian allentare, from Italian a-, from Italian staccare, from Italian distaccare, from Middle French destacher, from Old French destachier — to give.
rallentando (English): slackening; becoming slower
Definitions
- slackening; becoming slower
Ancestry of “rallentando”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | rallentando | rallentando; gerund of rallentare |
| 2 | Italian | rallentare | to slow down, decelerate, reduce the speed,... |
| 3 | Italian | allentare | to loosen; to slacken; to relax |
| 4 | Italian | a- | ad-; a- |
| 5 | Italian | staccare | to remove, take or take down; to tear out; to... |
| 6 | Italian | distaccare | to separate; to remove, detach, or take off; to... |
| 7 | Middle French | destacher | to detach; to separate |
| 8 | Old French | destachier | to detach; to separate |
| 9 | Old French | des | — |
| 10 | Old French | de | of; from |
| 11 | Latin | datum | gift, present; accusative supine of dō;... |
| 12 | Latin | datus | given; offered; yielded |
| 13 | Latin | dāre | — |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | didō | give |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | dédeh₃ti | to be giving |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₃- | to give |