si|no|pi|a

si|no|pi|a «sih NOH pee uh», noun, plural -pi|e «-pee ay» or -pias.

1. a preliminary drawing or sketch made with the pigment sinopis on the cement underlying the final surface of a fresco: »

Numerous sinopie…have been revealed by the removal of the final frescoes that covered them (John Canaday).

2. sinopis. (Cf. ↑sinopis)

╂[< Italian sinopia < Latin Sinōpis; see etym. under sinople (Cf. ↑sinople)]