intaglio en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɪnˈtɑl.iˌəʊ/ (UK)
- /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ (UK)
- (US)
- /ɪnˈtɑl.jəʊ/ (UK)
- /ɪnˈtæl.i.(j)oʊ/ (US)
- /ɪnˈtæl.joʊ/ (US)
- (US)
- /ɪnˈtɑl.joʊ/ (US)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).
Meanings
-
(countable, uncountable) A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
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.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- (countable, uncountable) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| intagli | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| intaglios | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| intaglioes | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| intaglii | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
intagliated · intagliation · reverse intaglio
Hyponyms
engraving · etching · drypoint
Translations (26)
eo gliptikaĵo (design or piece of art) · el εγχάρακτο (design or piece of art) · eo intajlo (design or piece of art) · ca gravat al burí (printing method) · el έγγλυφο (design or piece of art) · da dybtryk (printing method) · id intaglio (printing method) · bg дълбо́к печа́т (printing method) · el εγχάρακτος (design or piece of art) · ca talla dolça (printing method) · pl intaglio (printing method) · cs intaglio (design or piece of art) · pl intaglio (design or piece of art) · ga inghearradh (printing method) · el έγγλυφη (design or piece of art) · id cetak dalam (printing method) · de Tiefdruckverfahren (printing method) · fr taille-douce (printing method) · el εγχάρακτη (design or piece of art) · lv dobspiedums (printing method) · pt entalho (design or piece of art) · hu mélynyomtatás (printing method) · cs tisk zdola (printing method) · el έγγλυφος (design or piece of art) · cs intaglie (design or piece of art) · el εγγλυφή (printing method)