grabado

engraving

noun grah-BAH-doh Rare

Also means

Usage Note

Grabado as a noun means an engraving or print made by an art technique (un grabado antiguo, 'an old engraving'). It is also the past participle of grabar ('to record' or 'to engrave'), so it appears as an adjective in el programa grabado ('the recorded programme'). The noun for a recording is grabación (f).

Examples

"El museo tiene grabados del siglo XVIII."

Natural Translation

The museum has eighteenth-century engravings.

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