graffiti
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
graffiti (usually uncountable, plural graffiti)
- (chiefly uncountable) Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
- The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
- The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.
- 2021 October 20, “Network News: NR and NH tackle graffiti vandalism”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9:
- The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
- (archaeology, countable) Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.
Usage notes edit
- There is no universal singular form to denote a single piece of graffiti. In archaeology, and occasionally elsewhere, graffito is used, reflecting the Italian singular. There is some non-standard usage of graffitus, as though it were Latin (compare focus, plural foci); graffitum, also Latin sounding (though this would technically form the plural *graffita; compare millennium, plural millennia); and graffiti itself, unmodified.
Synonyms edit
- (archaeology): cave painting; epigraphy
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Verb edit
graffiti (third-person singular simple present graffitis, present participle graffitiing, simple past and past participle graffitied)
- (transitive) To mark a surface with such images.
Translations edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- graffiti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:graffiti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun edit
graffiti c (singular definite graffitien, plural indefinite graffiti)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
graffiti m (plural graffiti or graffiti's)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
graffiti
Declension edit
Inflection of graffiti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | graffiti | graffitit | ||
genitive | graffitin | graffitien | ||
partitive | graffitia | graffiteja | ||
illative | graffitiin | graffiteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | graffiti | graffitit | ||
accusative | nom. | graffiti | graffitit | |
gen. | graffitin | |||
genitive | graffitin | graffitien | ||
partitive | graffitia | graffiteja | ||
inessive | graffitissa | graffiteissa | ||
elative | graffitista | graffiteista | ||
illative | graffitiin | graffiteihin | ||
adessive | graffitilla | graffiteilla | ||
ablative | graffitilta | graffiteilta | ||
allative | graffitille | graffiteille | ||
essive | graffitina | graffiteina | ||
translative | graffitiksi | graffiteiksi | ||
abessive | graffititta | graffiteitta | ||
instructive | — | graffitein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “graffiti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Noun edit
graffiti m (uncountable)
Noun edit
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
Further reading edit
- “graffiti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
graffiti m pl
Participle edit
graffiti m pl
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (dialect: Oslo): | (file) |
Noun edit
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitier, definite plural graffitiene)
References edit
- “graffiti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.
Noun edit
graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitiar, definite plural graffitiane)
References edit
- “graffiti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism; compare English graffiti, French graffiti, German Graffiti, ultimately from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
graffiti n (indeclinable)
- graffiti (drawings on a surface)
- (archaeology) graffiti (informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian graffito.
Noun edit
graffiti n (uncountable)
Declension edit
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) graffiti | graffitiul |
genitive/dative | (unui) graffiti | graffitiului |
vocative | graffitiule |
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian graffiti.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
graffiti m (plural graffitis)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish edit
Noun edit
graffiti c
- graffiti (whether authorized or not)
- (archaeology) graffiti
Declension edit
Declension of graffiti | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | graffiti | graffitin | — | — |
Genitive | graffitis | graffitins | — | — |
Synonyms edit
- klotter (usually only when considered vandalism)
Derived terms edit
- graffitikonstnär (“graffiti artist”)
References edit
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