pictus Latin · revision 31988

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *pi-n-ḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɪk.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpik.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pictus''' (feminine picta, neuter pictum); first/second-declension participle^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|pingō|t=to paint]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|pingō]] to [[itc-pro|*ping-e/o-|t=to paint]] and [[ine-pro|*pi-n-ḱ-|t=to paint, adorn]], a nasal present.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ποικίλος|tr=poikílos|t=multicoloured]] and [[lt|piẽšti|t=to draw]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is in Accius, of the spotted skins of wild beasts;^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means painted, as Virgil's painted ships, and ''tabula picta'' is a painting.^(OLD 2012) The poets use it of natural things with colours or markings, and Cicero uses it figuratively of an ornate style, saying that nothing could be more ornate than Lysias.^(OLD 2012) Of fabrics it means embroidered in colour, as Cicero's little embroidered toga.^(OLD 2012) English [[m|en|pinto]] goes back through Spanish to a Vulgar Latin variant ⟨*pinctus⟩, and [[m|en|pint]] probably to ⟨*pincta⟩, from the feminine, after a painted mark on a vessel showing the measure.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of spotted skins.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of ornate style and of an embroidered toga.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of painted ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 3rd century AD – the Picts are first called ''Picti''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|painted|alt=Painted]], coloured; of natural things, coloured or marked;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''tabula picta'', a [[m|en|painting]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of style, ornate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of fabrics, [[m|en|embroidered]] in colour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pingo|alt=pingō]]

+ * [[pictor]]

+ * [[pictura|alt=pictūra]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The Late Latin name ''Picti'', the [[m|en|Pict|alt=Picts]], is usually taken as “painted ones”, perhaps a soldiers' nickname, but Etymonline thinks it more likely a Celtic tribal name that the Romans reshaped after this word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}