graffiti

• graffito

Borrowed from Italian graffiti.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈfiːti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈfiti/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːti

graffiti (usually uncountable, plural graffiti)

1. (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.

2. (archaeology, countable) Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.

• 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.

• (archaeology): cave painting; epigraphy

• sgraffito

graffiti (third-person singular simple present graffitis, present participle graffitiing, simple past and past participle graffitied)

1. (transitive) To mark a surface with such images.

• graffiti art
• graffiti artist
• hip-hop
• street art
• tagging

• graffiti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• graffiti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.

graffiti c (singular definite graffitien, plural indefinite graffiti)

1. graffiti

From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.

graffiti m (plural graffiti or graffiti's)

1. graffiti

From Italian graffiti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑfːiti/, [ˈɡrɑfːit̪i]
• Rhymes: -ɑfːiti
• Syllabification^(key): graf‧fi‧ti

graffiti

1. graffiti

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graffiti m (uncountable)

1. graffiti

graffiti m (plural graffitis)

1. graffito

• “graffiti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

graffiti m pl

1. plural of graffito

graffiti m pl

1. masculine plural of graffito

• griffati

From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.

graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitier, definite plural graffitiene)

1. graffiti

• “graffiti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian graffiti, plural of graffito.

graffiti m (definite singular graffitien, indefinite plural graffitiar, definite plural graffitiane)

1. graffiti

• “graffiti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English graffiti, from Italian graffiti.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrafˈfi.ti/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iti
• Syllabification: graf‧fi‧ti

graffiti n (indeclinable)

1. graffiti (drawings on a surface)
2. (archaeology) graffiti (informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions)

• graffiti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• graffiti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Italian graffito.

graffiti n (uncountable)

1. graffiti

• grafiti

Unadapted borrowing from Italian graffiti.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈfiti/ [ɡɾaˈfi.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -iti
• Syllabification: graf‧fi‧ti

graffiti m (plural graffitis)

1. graffiti

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.

graffiti c

1. graffiti; a form of vandalism involving painted text or images in public places
2. graffiti; any graffiti art produced as a result of that act of vandalism