calligraphy

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An example of calligraphy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligrafía, “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kallos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kə-lĭg'rə-fi, IPA: /kəˈlɪɡrəfi/, SAMPA: /k@"lIgr@fi/

Noun

calligraphy (countable and uncountable; plural calligraphies)

1. The art of writing letters and words with decorative strokes.
   • 2008 March 15, Roberta Smith, “Fair Goes From Feast to Tasting Menu”, New York Times:

     Around the corner, at Goedhuis, among more contemporary calligraphies, the fat and fuzzy brushwork of Zeng Yizeng (born 1973) stands out.

2. The letters and words so produced, collectively.
3. The art of writing fancy lettering.

Related terms

• calligrapher
• calligraphic

Translations

art of writing with decorative strokes

Albanian: bukurshkrim (sq) Arabic: خط (ar) (khaTT) m. Armenian: գեղագրություն (hy) (geġagrut’yun), վայելչագրություն (hy) (vayelčagrut’yun) Bosnian: kaligrafija (bs) f., krasnopis (bs) m., krasopis (bs) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 書法 (cmn), 书法 (cmn) (shūfǎ), 書道 (cmn), 书道 (cmn) (shūdào) (of Japanese calligraphy) Czech: kaligrafie (cs) f. Dutch: kalligrafie (nl) de Esperanto: kaligrafio (eo) Faroese: fagurskrift (fo) f., skreytskrift (fo) f. Finnish: kalligrafia (fi) French: calligraphie (fr) f. German: Kalligraphie (de) f. Greek: καλλιγραφία (el) f.

Hebrew: כתיבה תמה (he) (ktiva tama) f. Icelandic: skrautskrift (is) n., skrautritun (is) f. Italian: calligrafia (it) f. Japanese: (for Japanese calligraphy) 書道 (ja) (shodō), (for the others) 書法 (ja) (shohō), カリグラフィー (ja) (karigurafī) Korean: 달필 (ko) (dalpil) (達筆 (ko)) Polish: kaligrafia (pl) f. Russian: каллиграфия (ru) (kalligráfija) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: калиграфија f., краснопис m., красопис m. Roman: kaligrafija f., krasnopis m., krasopis m. Spanish: caligrafía (es) f. Swedish: kalligrafi (sv) Volapük: kaligraf (vo), (action) kaligrafam (vo)

External links

• Calligraphy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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