Etymology

demi-rilievo

Today it means: Half relief; sculpture in relief, whose figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. Full definition →

Italian rilievo
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromrilievo
  2. English todaydemi-rilievo

From demi- + Italian rilievo.

Words from the same roots

Italianrilievo all →

reliefrelievorilievo

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.