different between intaglio vs photogravure

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?tæl???/

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

   Coordinate terms: relief printing, planography

   Hyponyms: etching, engraving, drypoint

Translations

Verb

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

1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.

Further reading

• intaglio (printmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ligation, logitian, taglioni

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from intagliare.

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

1. carving, fretwork, meander, engraving, intaglio

   Synonym: incisione

Related terms

• intagliare
• intagliatore

Descendants

• ? English: intaglio

Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present of intagliare

Anagrams

• litigano
• taglioni

Spanish

Noun

intaglio m (plural intaglios)

1. intaglio

English

Etymology

photo- +? gravure

Noun

photogravure (countable and uncountable, plural photogravures)

1. (uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
2. (countable) A print so made.

Synonyms

• rotogravure

Translations

Verb

photogravure (third-person singular simple present photogravures, present participle photogravuring, simple past and past participle photogravured)

1. To print by this process.