Pictus

See also: pictus

Latin

Etymology

Superficially from Latin pictus (“painted one”), but probably rendering a Pictish autonym, probably related to the origin of another Celtic tribe, the Pictones; perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, the Goidelic/Q-Celtic version of the Brittonic/P-Celtic *Pritani, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”). More at Picts.

Proper noun

Pictus m

1. a Pict, a resident of early Scotland

Derived terms

• Pictavia, Pictauia

References

• Hudson, Benjamin (2014): The Picts
• Smith, J.R. (1864): History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places in Their Connection with the Progress of Civilization, Volume 2