The story
- Latin · derived fromrelevare“to raise up, make light”
- Italian · derived frombassorilievo
- French · borrowed frombas-relief
- English todaybas-relief
From French bas-relief, from Italian bassorilievo, compound of basso (“low”) + rilievo (“relief”), from Latin relevare (“to raise up, make light”).
Words from the same roots
Latinrelevare all →
relief
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.