fortissimo

Meaning of fortissimo

adverb

(especially as a direction) very loudly.
he plays fortissimo at one point in the finale of the Rachmaninoff

adjective

played very loudly.
the movement ends with a fortissimo coda

noun

a passage marked to be performed very loudly.
Tchaikovsky's fortissimos are given plenty of weight in the bass

Italian, from Latin fortissimus ‘very strong’.

Information about fortissimo

The plural form of fortissimo is: fortissimos.
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Hyphenation of fortissimo

for-tis-simo

It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
fortissimo is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

fortissimo synonyms

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