intaglio

intaglio

See also: intagliò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/

Noun

intaglio (countable and uncountable, plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii)

1. A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.

2. (printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

   Antonym: relief printing

   Coordinate terms: relief printing, planography

   Hyponyms: etching, engraving, drypoint

Translations

design or piece of art

Czech: intaglie (cs) f, intaglio n Greek: έγγλυφος (el) m (énglyfos), έγγλυφη (el) f (énglyfi), έγγλυφο (el) n (énglyfo), εγχάρακτος (el) m (encháraktos), εγχάρακτη f (enchárakti), εγχάρακτο n (enchárakto)

Portuguese: entalho m

printing method

Bulgarian: дълбок печат m (dǎlbok pečat) Czech: tisk zdola m Danish: dybtryk n French: taille-douce (fr) f

German: Tiefdruckverfahren n Greek: εγγλυφή (el) f (englyfí)

Verb

intaglio (third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed)

1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.

Further reading

• intaglio (printmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ligation, logitian, taglioni

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Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from intagliare.

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

1. carving, fretwork, meander, engraving, intaglio

   Synonym: incisione

Related terms

• intagliare
• intagliatore

Descendants

• → English: intaglio

Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present of intagliare

Anagrams

• litigano
• taglioni

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Spanish

Noun

intaglio m (plural intaglios)

1. intaglio