depict
/dɪˈpɪkt/dih-PIKT
/dɪˈpɪkt/dih-PIKT
Meaningto paint
Common meaning: to show in a picture or words
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- pictto paint, colour inLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1378 · scan
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to paint, colour in’ → depict
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Built on Latin pingō ‘to paint, colour in’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry pingō, p. 1378 · dictionary scan
Roots
- pingō, pīnxī, pictum Latin “to paint, colour in”
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