rilievo

English

Etymology

Italian rilievo.

Noun

rilievo (plural rilievos or rilievi)

1. (art) A relief.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rilievo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin relevium, from Latin relevo (“I raise”).

Noun

rilievo m (plural rilievi)

1. relief
2. (sculpture) relief
3. survey

Derived terms

• altorilievo
• bassorilievo