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    fortissimo
    /fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ/

    adverb

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

    adjective

    • 1. played very loudly: "the movement ends with a fortissimo coda"

    noun

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

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