pictor

See also: Pictor

Interlingua

Noun

pictor (plural pictores)

1. painter

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Latin

Etymology

Consists of pic- +‎ -tor. Latin pic- is the root of pingō (“paint, embroider”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tor/, [ˈpɪkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tor/, [ˈpikt̪or]

Noun

pictor m (genitive pictōris); third declension

1. A painter; embroider.
2. (later Latin): An easel (for holding a painting).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pictor	pictōrēs
genitive	pictōris	pictōrum
dative	pictōrī	pictōribus
accusative	pictōrem	pictōrēs
ablative	pictōre	pictōribus
vocative	pictor	pictōrēs

Derived terms

• pictōrius

Related terms

• pictūra
• pictūrātus
• pingō

Descendants

• Friulian: pitôr
• Italian: pittore
• Venetan: pitór
• Vulgar Latin: *pinctor
  • Asturian: pintor
  • Dalmatian: pentaur
  • Catalan: pintor
  • French: peintre
  • Galician: pintor
  • Occitan: pintor
  • Portuguese: pintor
  • Sicilian: pinturi
  • Spanish: pintor
    • → Cebuano: pintor
  • Venetan: pentór
• → Romanian: pictor
• Translingual: Beta Pictoris

References

• “pictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pictor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pictor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Romanian

Pictor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pictor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tor/

Noun

pictor m (plural pictori, feminine equivalent pictoriță)

1. painter (artist)

Declension

Declension of pictor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pictor	pictorul	(niște) pictori	pictorii
genitive/dative	(unui) pictor	pictorului	(unor) pictori	pictorilor
vocative	pictorule		pictorilor

Related terms

• pictură
• picta
• pictoriță