peinture French · revision 16895

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1121–1134, Philippe de Thaon, Bestiaire|origins=la pingo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pɛ̃.tyʁ/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Quebec): /pẽ.t͡sʏʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''peinture''' ''f'' (plural peintures)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|pointure]], [[m|fro|peinture]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la-vul|*pinctūra]], a remaking after the verb [[m|la|pingō|t=to paint]] (see [[peindre]]) of classical [[m|la|pictūra|t=the art of painting; a painting; description]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[pro|pintura]], [[ca|pintura]], [[es|pintura]] and [[pt|pintura]], which share the ⟨n⟩; [[it|pittura]] continues the classical form.^(REW 1935)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Philippe de Thaon's ''Bestiaire'' (1121–1134) uses it for a description, an image made with words.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) About 1140 the ''Pèlerinage de Charlemagne'' has it for painted pictures: ''par mult cheres peintures a bestes et a serpenz''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ About 1165 Benoît de Sainte-Maure uses it for the representation of the visible world through colour, the art of painting.^(TLFi) About 1200 it was also what is engraved in the mind or heart.^(TLFi) The material sense, the colouring matter used to paint, is in Pomey (1671), and La Bruyère (1688) has it for make-up.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ''En peinture'' “in a portrait” dates from the 15th century (Villon); ''ne pas pouvoir voir quelqu'un en peinture'' “not to be able to stand the sight of someone” is in Littré (1868).^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) Its derivatives include [[peinturer]] (12th century) and the jocular [[peinturlurer]] (1743), perhaps after ''lurelure''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1121–1134 – A verbal description, in Philippe de Thaon.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1140 – Painted pictures, in the ''Pèlerinage de Charlemagne''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1165 – The art of painting, in Benoît de Sainte-Maure.^(TLFi)

+ * 1671 – Paint, the colouring matter, in Pomey.^(TLFi)

+ * 1688 – Make-up, in La Bruyère.^(TLFi)

+ * 1743 – ''Peinturlurer''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1868 – ''Ne pas pouvoir voir en peinture'', in Littré.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|paint|alt=Paint]]: ''un pot de peinture'', ''peinture fraîche'', wet paint.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # Painting, the covering of a surface with paint: ''peinture en bâtiment'', house painting.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # The art of [[m|en|painting]]: ''la peinture à l'huile'', ''peinture abstraite''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A painting, a picture.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # A description, a portrayal (in words).^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(familiar)'' ''Ne pas pouvoir voir quelqu'un en peinture'': not to be able to stand the sight of someone.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[peinturer]]

+ * [[peinturlurer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[peindre]]

+ * [[peintre]]

+ * [[pictural]]

+ * [[pittoresque]]

+ * [[la|pictūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}