The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγράφειν“to write or scratch”
- Italian · borrowed fromsgraffito
- English todaysgraffito
Borrowed from Italian sgraffito, from s- (“out”) + graffito (past participle of graffire), ultimately from Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to write or scratch”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγράφειν all →
grapholite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.