Noun: descrescendo
| Singular | descrescendo |
| Plural | descrescendos; descrescendi |
Sample Sentences
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“It’s probably the most difficult piece I’ve ever done,” he said before trying out several movements at a Wednesday evening concert, his fingers slinking from keyboard to keyboard and darting restlessly over the 729 stop-control tablets as phrase seamlessly followed phrase and crescendo climaxed and faded into descrescendo. [2007 June 9, Craig R. Whitney, “Amid the Shirts and Socks, a Concert Can Break Out”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like descrescendo
sbirro,
vetturino,
capocollo,
clavicembalo,
decrescendo,
scherzando,
bambino,
concerto,
descrescendo,
zufolo,
stornello,
cavaletto,
inamorato,
zuffolo,
secondo,
rifacimento,
paesano,
pianissimo,
palazzo,
pandoro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian.