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English[edit]
Graffiti on the Berlin Wall, November 1989
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- 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; cf. millennium, plural millennia); and graffiti itself, unmodified.
Synonyms[edit]
- (archaeology): cave painting; epigraphy
Translations[edit]
drawings on a surface
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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
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[edit]
create graffiti
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
graffiti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
graffiti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun[edit]
graffiti c (singular definite graffitien, plural indefinite graffiti)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (plural graffiti or graffiti's)
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
graffiti
Declension[edit]
| 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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (uncountable)
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
Further reading[edit]
- “graffiti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
graffiti m pl
Participle[edit]
graffiti m pl
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Pronunciation[edit]
| Audio (dialect: Oslo) | (file) |
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitier, definite plural graffitiene)
References[edit]
- “graffiti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitiar, definite plural graffitiane)
References[edit]
- “graffiti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English graffiti, from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
graffiti n (indeclinable)
- graffiti (drawings on a surface)
- (archaeology) graffiti (informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions)
Related terms[edit]
nouns
Further reading[edit]
- graffiti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- graffiti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
graffiti n (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
declension of graffiti (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) graffiti | graffitiul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) graffiti | graffitiului |
| vocative | graffitiule | |
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
Usage notes[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
| Declension of graffiti | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | graffiti | graffitin | — | — |
| Genitive | graffitis | graffitins | — | — |
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