Pictor

See also: pictor

English

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).

Proper noun

Pictor

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.

Derived terms

• Pictoris

Translations

constellation

• Finnish: Maalari (fi)
• French: Peintre (fr) m
• German: Maler (de) m
• Irish: an Péintéir m
• Malay: Pelukis
• Polish: Malarz (pl) m
• Russian: Живописец (Živopisec)
• Spanish: Pictor

See also

• Kapteyn's Star

Anagrams

• -tropic, Tropic, protic, tropic

Latin

Etymology

From pictor (“painter”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Pictor m sg (genitive Pictōris); third declension

1. a cognomen famously held by:
   1. Quīntus Fabius Pictor, a Roman politician

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Pictor
genitive	Pictōris
dative	Pictōrī
accusative	Pictōrem
ablative	Pictōre
vocative	Pictor

References

• “Pictor2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.