stretto

Borrowed from Italian stretto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɛtəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtəʊ

stretto (plural strettos or stretti)

1. (music) The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end.
2. (music) An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax.

stretto (not comparable)

1. (music) With gradually increasing speed.

stretto (not comparable)

1. (music) Having gradually increasing speed.
   • 1960, Thomas Pynchon, Entropy:

     So that over and above the public components – holidays, tourist attractions – there are private meanderings, linked to the climate as if this spell were a stretto passage in the year’s fugue: haphazard weather, aimless loves, unpredicted commitments…

• rottest, stotter, tortest, totters

From Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstretːo/

stretto (feminine singular stretta, masculine plural stretti, feminine plural strette)

1. narrow

   Antonym: largo

2. tight
3. strict
4. (linguistics) close

• caffè stretto (“espresso with less water”)

stretto m (plural stretti)

1. strait

stretto m

1. past participle of stringere

• stretta
• strettezza
• strettire
• strettoia
• strettoio
• strettura
• ristretto