pingo

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

pingō pinxī, pictus, ere,

to paint, make by painting: tabulas: tabulas pictas mirari, paintings, S.—To paint, represent, delineate, depict, portray: (comas) Dione Pingitur sustinuisse manu, is represented in a picture, O.: picta in tabulā Voluptas: aere dato qui pingitur, H.— Prov.: qui numquam philosophum pictum viderunt, a philosopher's portrait.—To embroider: textile stragulum, magnificis operibus pictum: picti tori, with embroidered coverlets, O.: Pictus acu chlamydem, V.—To paint, stain, color: Sanguineis frontem moris, V.: oculos, Iu.: picti scuta, with painted shields, V.—To adorn, decorate, embellish: bibliothecam mihi sittybis.—Fig., of style, to paint, color, embellish: verba: Britanniam coloribus tuis, penicillo meo: (vir) omnibus a me pictus et politus artis coloribus.

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