graffiti
English
Alternative forms
- graffito
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈfiːti/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈfiti/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːti
Noun
graffiti (usually uncountable, plural graffiti)
- (chiefly uncountable) Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
- The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
- The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.
- 2021 October 20, “Network News: NR and NH tackle graffiti vandalism”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9:
- The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
- (archaeology, countable) Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.
Usage notes
- There is no universal singular form to denote a single piece of graffiti. In archaeology, and occasionally elsewhere, graffito is used, reflecting the Italian singular. There is some non-standard usage of graffitus, as though it were Latin (compare focus, plural foci); graffitum, also Latin sounding (though this would technically form the plural *graffita; compare millennium, plural millennia); and graffiti itself, unmodified.
Synonyms
- (archaeology): cave painting; epigraphy
Translations
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See also
- sgraffito
Verb
graffiti (third-person singular simple present graffitis, present participle graffitiing, simple past and past participle graffitied)
- (transitive) To mark a surface with such images.
Translations
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See also
- graffiti art
- graffiti artist
- hip-hop
- street art
- tagging
Further reading
graffiti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
graffiti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Danish
Etymology
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun
graffiti c (singular definite graffitien, plural indefinite graffiti)
- graffiti
Dutch
Etymology
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun
graffiti m (plural graffiti or graffiti's)
- graffiti
Finnish
Etymology
From Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡrɑfːiti/, [ˈɡrɑfːit̪i]
- Rhymes: -ɑfːiti
- Syllabification(key): graf‧fi‧ti
Noun
graffiti
- graffiti
Declension
| Inflection of graffiti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | graffiti | graffitit | |
| genitive | graffitin | graffitien | |
| partitive | graffitia | graffiteja | |
| illative | graffitiin | graffiteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | graffiti | graffitit | |
| accusative | nom. | graffiti | graffitit |
| gen. | graffitin | ||
| genitive | graffitin | graffitien | |
| partitive | graffitia | graffiteja | |
| inessive | graffitissa | graffiteissa | |
| elative | graffitista | graffiteista | |
| illative | graffitiin | graffiteihin | |
| adessive | graffitilla | graffiteilla | |
| ablative | graffitilta | graffiteilta | |
| allative | graffitille | graffiteille | |
| essive | graffitina | graffiteina | |
| translative | graffitiksi | graffiteiksi | |
| instructive | — | graffitein | |
| abessive | graffititta | graffiteitta | |
| comitative | — | graffiteineen | |
| Possessive forms of graffiti (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | graffitini | graffitimme |
| 2nd person | graffitisi | graffitinne |
| 3rd person | graffitinsa | |
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
graffiti m (uncountable)
- graffiti
Noun
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
- graffito
Further reading
- “graffiti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
graffiti m pl
- plural of graffito
Participle
graffiti m pl
- masculine plural of graffito
Anagrams
- griffati
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Pronunciation
| Audio (dialect: Oslo) | (file) |
Noun
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitier, definite plural graffitiene)
- graffiti
References
- “graffiti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitiar, definite plural graffitiane)
- graffiti
References
- “graffiti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English graffiti, from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrafˈfi.ti/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iti
- Syllabification: graf‧fi‧ti
Noun
graffiti n (indeclinable)
- graffiti (drawings on a surface)
- (archaeology) graffiti (informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions)
Related terms
- grafficiarz
- graffitoman
Further reading
- graffiti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- graffiti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Italian graffito.
Noun
graffiti n (uncountable)
- graffiti
Declension
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) graffiti | graffitiul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) graffiti | graffitiului |
| vocative | graffitiule | |
Spanish
Alternative forms
- grafiti
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɾaˈfiti/ [ɡɾaˈfi.t̪i]
- Rhymes: -iti
- Syllabification: graf‧fi‧ti
Noun
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
- graffiti
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Noun
graffiti c
- graffiti; a form of vandalism involving painted text or images in public places
- graffiti; any graffiti art produced as a result of that act of vandalism
Declension
| Declension of graffiti | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | graffiti | graffitin | — | — |
| Genitive | graffitis | graffitins | — | — |