Question

Answer the following question in 1-2 complete sentences.

What Latin verb does the term, Intaglio, come from? What does the verb mean in Latin? What date and society can Intaglio be dated back to?

Answer 1

The term comes from Italian intagliare, from Late/Medieval Latin intagliare, a verb meaning “to carve” or “to cut into.” The intaglio technique itself dates back to the early Bronze Age—eg. Sumerian cylinder seals in ancient Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE—and was used later by Egyptian, Minoan and other ancient societies.