Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Slowing gradually. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, slackening; retarding: a direction to sing or play with increasing slowness the notes over which it is written.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Slackening; retarding. Same as
rallentando .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Alternative form of
rallentando .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian, present participle of lentare, to make slow, from lento, slow; see lento.]
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Italian, present participle of lentare to make slow.
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Back in the 18th century they often used the term lentando, and even today there are a number of directions that mean roughly the same thing, the closest being ritardando, and also ritenuto, which generally implies a more sudden slowdown.
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