pictor

pictor (plural pictores)

1. painter

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

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

pictor m (genitive pictōris); third declension

1. painter
2. embroiderer
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (later Latin): An easel (for holding a painting).

Third-declension noun.

• pictōrius

• pictūra
• pictūrātus
• pingō

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

• “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

Borrowed from Latin pictor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpik.tor/

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pictor m (plural pictori, feminine equivalent pictoriță)

1. painter (artist)

• pictură
• picta
• pictoriță