rotogravure

noun

using photography to produce a plate for printing

printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

Roots

rotorot- · Latin · turn, wheel gravo-grav · Latin · engrave, carve

Synonyms for rotogravure

gravuren printingn photoengravingn planographyn letterpressn printmakingn collotypen phototypographyadj lithographyn chromoxylographyadj

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Where does rotogravure come from?

The word rotogravure breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: rot-, from Latin roto (“turn, wheel”); and -grav, from Latin gravo (“engrave, carve”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.