pictura

See also: pictură

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pictūra (“a painting”). Doublet of picture.

Noun

pictura (plural picturae)

1. The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
   • 2004, Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf, Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004), →ISBN, pages 57–58:

     It is customary to distinguish three components in an emblem: the pictura or symbolic image or picture, accompanied by the preceding inscriptio or motto and the subsequent subscriptio, usually an explication in verse of the idea expressed in combination of the inscriptio and the pictura.

   • 2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, →ISBN, page 183:

     Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.

   • 2014, Durant Waite Robertson, Essays in Medieval Culture, →ISBN, page 64:

     A poem may contain things which are significant in spite of the fact that the events it describes are a mere pictura of something which never happened.

2. (zoology) The pattern of coloration.

References

• “pictura”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Noun

pictura (plural picturas)

1. picture
2. painting

Latin

Etymology

From pictum +‎ -tūra, from the supine of pingō (“I paint”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pikˈtuː.ra/, [pɪkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pikˈtu.ra/, [pikˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

pictūra f (genitive pictūrae); first declension

1. painting, the art of painting
   • 65 C.E., Seneca, Epistles, 16.8

     accedant statuae et picturae.

2. picture (image), a painting

   Mūtum est pictūra poēma.

   A picture is a silent poem.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pictūra	pictūrae
genitive	pictūrae	pictūrārum
dative	pictūrae	pictūrīs
accusative	pictūram	pictūrās
ablative	pictūrā	pictūrīs
vocative	pictūra	pictūrae

Derived terms

• pictūrātus

Descendants

• Italian: pittura
• Vulgar Latin: *pinctūra
  • Catalan: pintura
  • French: peinture
  • Galician: pintura
  • Occitan: pintura
  • Portuguese: pintura
  • Spanish: pintura
• → English: picture
• → Irish: pictiúr
• → Pennsylvania German: Pikder
• → Romanian: pictură

References

• “pictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pictura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pictura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the art of painting: ars pingendi, pictura (De Or. 2. 16. 69)
    
• “pictura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pictura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “pictura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin