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Webster 1913 Edition


Pictura


Pic-tu′ra

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Noun.
[L., a painting.]
(Zool.)
Pattern of coloration.

Definition 2024


pictura

pictura

See also: pictură

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

Noun

pictūra f (genitive pictūrae); first declension

  1. painting, the art of painting

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pictūra pictūrae
genitive pictūrae pictūrārum
dative pictūrae pictūrīs
accusative pictūram pictūrās
ablative pictūrā pictūrīs
vocative pictūra pictūrae

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