pictura Latin · revision 3704

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *peyḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pɪkˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pikˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pictūra''' ''f'' (genitive pictūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pingo|-tura|alt1=pingō|t1=to paint]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb is [[inh|itc-pro|*ping-e/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*pi-n-ḱ-|t=to paint, adorn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus onwards,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of painting the face: “do you want to touch up a lovely work with new paint?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the action or art of painting, as Cicero's “there is one art and method of painting”, and a painting or picture, as in Terence.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Rhetorica ad Herennium says a poem should be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It was also used of coloured embroidery, natural colouring or markings, as Pliny's markings of gems, peacocks and tigers, and of a mental image, as Virgil's Aeneas feeding his mind on an empty picture.^(OLD 2012) English ''picture'' was borrowed in the early 15th century, first for the art of painting.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of face paint.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a painting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium calls painting a silent poem.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a mental image.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''picture'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The action or art of [[m|en|painting]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A painting, [[m|en|picture]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Embroidery, appliqué work.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Natural colouring, markings.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A mental image.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pictūrātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pingo]]

+ * [[en|picture]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}