There is another set of Italian terms that helps determine how loudly or how quietly you play the music. Pianissimo (pp) means that you play the music very quietly. The decibel is the way you know how intense the sound is, but most pieces of music just use the symbols. Piano is the next "level" up from pianissimo. The suffix,-issimo, means "very."
In the same way, it world with forte and fortissimo. Forte means loud while fortissimo means very loud. If you want something to be even louder, you would call it forississimo. Mezzo piano and mezzo forte are in between piano and forte. "Mezzo" means moderate so, when you add forte, it means moderately loud. Mezzo piano means moderately soft.
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