lithography

English

Etymology

1813. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Lithographie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”).

Noun

lithography (countable and uncountable, plural lithographies)

1. The process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface; originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate.

Derived terms

• chromolithography
• stereolithography

Translations

printing method

• Bulgarian: литография f (litografija)
• Catalan: litografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平版印刷 (zh) (píngbǎn yìnshuā)

• Czech: litografie (cs) f, kamenotisk (cs) m
• Danish: litografi c
• Dutch: lithographie f
• Esperanto: litografio
• Finnish: litografia (fi), kivipaino
• French: lithographie (fr) f
• Galician: litografía (gl) f
• German: Lithographie (de) f
• Greek: λιθογραφία (el) f (lithografía)
• Hungarian: litográfia (hu)
• Irish: liteagrafaíocht f
• Japanese: リトグラフ (ritogurafu)
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• Khmer: សិលាលេខន៍ (səylaa leekʰ)
• Macedonian: литографија f (litográfija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: litografi m

  Nynorsk: litografi m

• Persian: چاپ سنگی (čâp-e sangi)
• Polish: litografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: litografia (pt) f
• Romanian: litografie (ro) f
• Russian: литогра́фия (ru) f (litográfija)
• Scottish Gaelic: leac-sgrìobhadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литографија f

  Roman: litografija (sh) f

• Slovak: litografia f
• Slovene: litografija (sl) f
• Spanish: litografía (es) f
• Swedish: litografi (sv) c