glyph
[ glif ]
/ glɪf /
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noun
a pictograph or hieroglyph.
a sculptured figure or relief carving.
Architecture. an ornamental channel or groove.
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Origin of glyph
1720–30; < Greek glyph(ḗ) carving, derivative of glýphein to hollow out
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glyph
/ (ɡlɪf) /
noun
a carved channel or groove, esp a vertical one as used on a Doric frieze
rare another word for hieroglyphic
any computer-generated character regarded in terms of its shape and bit pattern
Word Origin for glyph
C18: from French glyphe, from Greek gluphē carving, from gluphein to carve
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glyph
1727, "ornamental groove in architecture," from French glyphe (1701), from Greek glyphe "a carving," from glyphein "to hollow out, cut out with a knife, engrave, carve," from PIE root *gleubh- "to cut, slice" (cf. Latin glubere "to peel, shell, strip," Old English cleofan "to cleave"). Meaning "sculpted mark or symbol" (as in hieroglyph) is from 1825.
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