crescendo – English noun declension

English noun forms of crescendo

Noun: crescendo
Singularcrescendo
Pluralcrescendos; crescendi; crescendoes

Sample Sentences

  • As he came into the window / It was the sound of a crescendo [1987, Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”, in Bad:]
  • Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
  • Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
  • With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances. [2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:]

Nouns inflected like crescendo

soprano, crescendo, basso,

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”). See: Italian Nouns 'crescendo'.