crescendo — a gradual increase in volume or force
crescendo — this is both the Spanish and the Italian cognates of the same meaning
The word “crescendo” comes to us from Italian, which, in turn, got the word from Latin. The Latin verb “crescere” means “to grow,” and it gave us the word “crescendo,” meaning quite literally “growing.”
It also gave Spanish t…
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