English

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 904201752X, page 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 1443820067, page 183:

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

   • 2014, Durant Waite Robertson, Essays in Medieval Culture, ISBN 1400856647, 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) A pattern of coloration.

Interlingua

Noun

pictura ‎(plural picturas)

1. picture
2. painting

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pikˈtuː.ra/

Noun

pictūra f ‎(genitive pictūrae); first declension

1. painting, the art of painting
   • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem, 2.4.1.1

     accedant statuae et picturae.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• pingō

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pictura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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