intaglio

See also: intagliò

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/, /ɪnˈtɑl.jəʊ/, /ɪnˈtɑl.iˌəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtæl.i.(j)oʊ/, /ɪnˈtæl.joʊ/, /ɪnˈtɑl.joʊ/, (spelling pronunciations) /ɪnˈtæɡ.li.oʊ/, /ɪnˈtɑɡ.li.oʊ/

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

   Hyponyms: etching, engraving, drypoint

   Coordinate terms: relief printing, planography

Derived terms

• reverse intaglio

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 (el) f (enchárakti), εγχάρακτο (el) n (enchárakto)
• Portuguese: entalho (pt) 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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈtaʎ.ʎo/
• Rhymes: -aʎʎo
• Hyphenation: in‧tà‧glio

Etymology 1

Deverbal from intagliare +‎ -o.

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

1. carving, fretwork, meander, engraving, intaglio

   Synonym: incisione

Related terms

• intagliare
• intagliatore

Descendants

• → English: intaglio

Etymology 2

Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present indicative of intagliare

Anagrams

• ingolati, litigano, taglioni

Spanish

Noun

intaglio m (plural intaglios)

1. intaglio