intaglio

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See also: intagliò

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • (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

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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

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Verb

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

  1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from intagliare +‎ -o.

Noun

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intaglio m (plural intagli)

  1. carving, fretwork, meander, engraving, intaglio
    Synonym: incisione
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Descendants
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  • English: intaglio

Etymology 2

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Verb

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intaglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of intagliare

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Spanish

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Noun

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intaglio m (plural intaglios)

  1. intaglio