ritratto

See also: ritrattò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ritratto

Noun

ritratto (plural ritrattos or ritrattoes)

1. (obsolete) A picture; a portrait.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

     ——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ritratto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• attritor, titrator

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin retractus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈtratto/
• Rhymes: -atto

Adjective

1. drawn back, withdrawn
2. portrayed, drawn, depicted

Noun

ritratto m (plural ritratti)

1. portrait, image, picture, description

Related terms

• ritrarre
• ritrattista
• ritrattistica
• ritrattistico

Descendants

• → English: ritratto
• → Portuguese: retrato
• → Spanish: retrato
  • → Cebuano: litrato
  • → Southeastern Tepehuan: ditraato
  • → Tagalog: retrato

Verb

1. past participle of ritrarre

Verb

ritratto

1. first-person singular present indicative of ritrattare

Anagrams

• rattorti
• trarotti
• trattori