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graffiti

Greek gráphein 'to write, scratch' gave Latin graphium 'stylus' and Italian graffio 'a scratch'; archaeologists used graffiti for the wall-scratchings of Pompeii, and New York subway writers of the 1970s sent the word around the world. The same stylus gave English graft.

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700 BCEAncient Greek

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