pictus

See also: Pictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of pingō (“I paint”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tus/, [ˈpɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tus/, [ˈpikt̪us]

Participle

pictus (feminine picta, neuter pictum); first/second-declension participle

1. decorated, embellished, having been decorated
2. painted, coloured, having been painted
3. portrayed, having been portrayed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pictus	picta	pictum		pictī	pictae	picta
Genitive	pictī	pictae	pictī		pictōrum	pictārum	pictōrum
Dative	pictō		pictō		pictīs
Accusative	pictum	pictam	pictum		pictōs	pictās	picta
Ablative	pictō	pictā	pictō		pictīs
Vocative	picte	picta	pictum		pictī	pictae	picta

Derived terms

• Pictus

Descendants

• → English: Pict
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pinctus
  • French: peint
    • → English: paint
  • Galician: pinto
  • Italian: pinto
  • Spanish: pinto
    • → English: pinto
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pincta
  • Catalan: pinta
  • Old French: pinte
    • French: pinte
    • → Irish: pionta
    • → Middle English: pinte
      • English: pint
      • → Welsh: peint

References

• “pictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • statues and pictures: signa et tabulae (pictae)