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

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Verb

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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Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English intaglio, from Italian intaglio.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /intaɡˈlio/ [in̪.t̪ak̚ˈli.o]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: in‧tag‧li‧o

Noun

intaglio (plural intaglio-intaglio)

  1. (printing) intaglio
    Synonym: cetak dalam

Further reading

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
Descendants
  • English: intaglio

Etymology 2

Verb

intaglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of intagliare

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Spanish

Noun

intaglio m (plural intaglios)

  1. intaglio