A mark, design, or writing scratched or carved into a surface; a single piece of graffiti.
From Italian 'graffito,' derived from the verb 'graffiare' meaning 'to scratch,' which comes from Germanic 'kraft' or 'Frankish kraf.' The Italian form became the artistic term for scratched designs.
Graffito is the singular of graffiti—but here's the cool part: archaeologists found thousands of graffiti in Pompeii (scratched into walls before the volcano buried the city in 79 AD), giving us the oldest evidence of people leaving marks to say 'Brutus was here.'
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