Usage Note
Inschrift combines in and Schrift ('writing') and names text carved or engraved on monuments, coins, or gravestones. It's distinct from Aufschrift, which is text written or printed on a surface like a label.
Examples
"Die Inschrift ist kaum noch lesbar."
Natural Translation
The inscription is barely legible anymore.
Literal Translation
The inscription is barely still readable.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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