lithography

English

A stone used in early forms of lithography.

Etymology

From German Lithographie, from λίθος (líthos, “stone”) +‎ γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”). Originally the printing surface was a flat piece of limestone that was treated with grease to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate. By surface analysis, litho- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪθˈɒɡɹəfi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

lithography (countable and uncountable, plural lithographies)

1. The process of printing an image by drawing the image with a water-repellent material onto a hard, flat surface (typically metal), then copying the surface by applying water and ink (or the equivalent) to it and pressing another material against it. [from 1813]

   Hypernym: planography

   Hyponyms: offset printing, photolithography

Derived terms

• chromolithography
• lithograph
• photolithography
• soft lithography
• stereolithography

Translations

printing method

• Arabic: الطباعة الحجرية
• Armenian: վիմագրություն (hy) (vimagrutʻyun)
• Belarusian: літагра́фія f (litahráfija)
• Bulgarian: литография f (litografija)
• Catalan: litografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平版印刷 (zh) (píngbǎn yìnshuā)

• Czech: litografie (cs) f, kamenotisk (cs) m
• Danish: litografi n
• Dutch: lithografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: litografio
• Estonian: litograafia
• Finnish: litografia (fi), kivipaino
• French: lithographie (fr) f
• Friulian: litografie f
• Galician: litografía (gl) f
• Georgian: ლითოგრაფია (litograpia)
• German: Lithografie (de) f, Lithographie (de) f
• Greek: λιθογραφία (el) f (lithografía)
• Hebrew: הדפס אבן f (hidpís éven)
• Hungarian: litográfia (hu)
• Icelandic: steinþrykk m
• Indonesian: litografi (id)
• Irish: liteagrafaíocht f
• Italian: litografia (it) f
• Japanese: リトグラフ (ritogurafu)
• Khmer: សិលាលេខន៍ (səylaa leekʰ)
• Korean: 석판 인쇄 (seokpan inswae)
• Latvian: litogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: litografija f
• Macedonian: литографија f (litografija)
• Malay: litografi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: litografi m

  Nynorsk: litografi m

• Ottoman Turkish: لیتوغرافیا (litografya)
• Persian: چاپ سنگی (čâp-e sangi)
• Polish: litografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: litografia (pt) f
• Romanian: litografie (ro) f
• Russian: литогра́фия (ru) f (litográfija)
• Scottish Gaelic: leac-sgrìobhadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литогра̀фија f

  Roman: litogràfija (sh) f

• Slovak: litografia (sk) f
• Slovene: litografija (sl) f
• Spanish: litografía (es) f
• Swedish: litografi (sv) c
• Thai: ภาพพิมพ์หิน (pâap-pá-pim-hĭn)
• Turkish: taş baskı (tr), litografi (tr), litografya (tr)
• Ukrainian: літографія f (litohrafija)
• Vietnamese: in thạch bản (vi), in li-tô (vi), in đá (vi)

Further reading

• lithography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia