Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1850s
Graffiti
from graffiti
- Meaning
- Plural of *graffito*, "little scratching" — wall scratchings in Pompeii were called this by archaeologists.
- Source word
- graffiti
- Route into English
- Italian archaeology → English in the 19th c.; modern street-art sense from 1960s New York.
- Arrived
- 1850s
English borrows.
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