pictor Latin · revision 32454

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pi-n-ḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pictor''' ''m'' (genitive pictōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pingō|-tor|t1=to paint]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) 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) He compares [[sa|पिंशति|tr=piṃśati|t=to adorn, carve out]], [[grc|ποικίλος|tr=poikílos|t=multicoloured]], [[lt|piẽšti|t=to draw lines, adorn]] and [[txb|piṅkeṃ|t=they paint, write]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus; the TLL counts four uses in his plays and finds it rare in poetry.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the usual word for a painter, in Cicero, Horace, Juvenal and Pliny the Elder's books on painting.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions spell it ⟨pinc-⟩ and ⟨pig-⟩, and abbreviate it ⟨pict⟩.^(TLL) Corippus, in Late Latin, uses it of an embroiderer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of painters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder writes about painters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|painter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' An [[m|en|embroiderer]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pictōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pictūra]]

+ * [[pictūrātus]]

+ * [[pingō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Pictor is also a cognomen of the gens Fabia, borne above all by Quintus Fabius Pictor, the historian of the time of the Second Punic War.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}