pictura

See also pictură

English

Etymology

Latin, a painting.

Noun

pictura (plural picturae)

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2. (zoology) A pattern of coloration.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Latin

Etymology

From pictum +‎ -tūra, from the supine of pingō (“I paint”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /pikˈtuː.ra/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

pictūra (genitive pictūrae); f, first declension

1. painting, the art of painting
   • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem, 2.4.1.1

     accedant statuae et picturae.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	pictūra	pictūrae
genitive	pictūrae	pictūrārum
dative	pictūrae	pictūrīs
accusative	pictūram	pictūrās
ablative	pictūrā	pictūrīs
vocative	pictūra	pictūrae

Related terms

• pingō

Descendants

Catalan: pintura English: picture French: peinture Galician: pintura Italian: pittura

Occitan: pintura Portuguese: pintura Romanian: pictură Spanish: pintura

References

• pictura in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879