esgrafito

Portuguese

Alternative forms

sgraffito

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sgraffito.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /iz.ɡɾaˈfi.tu/, /ez.ɡɾaˈfi.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʒ.ɡɾaˈfi.tu/, /eʒ.ɡɾaˈfi.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ez.ɡɾaˈfi.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʒ.ɡɾɐˈfi.tu/ [(i)ʒ.ɣɾɐˈfi.tu]

Hyphenation: es‧gra‧fi‧to

Noun

esgrafito m (plural esgrafitos)

(art) sgraffito (technique where the top layer is scratched through to reveal an underlying layer)

Further reading

“esgrafito”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“esgrafito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026