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taliare
Late Latin · ancient
"to split, cut"
a verb meaning to split or cut
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tagliare
Italian · medieval
"to cut"
kept the sense of cutting
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intagliare
Italian · medieval
"to cut into, engrave"
in- 'into' plus tagliare 'to cut' - to engrave by cutting into a surface
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intaglio
English · 1640s
"an incised or engraved design"
borrowed as a noun for an image incised into a hard surface
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