pingebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pingo, pingere, pinxi, pictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
paint, tint, color; adorn/decorate w/colored designs; paint/draw/depict/portray;; decorate/embellish; depict in embroidery; [acu ~ => embroidery, needle-work];
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tractu, sive levi teretem versabat pollice fusum, seu pingebat acu; scires a Pallade doctam. quod tamen ipsa negat..." - P
Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...captis nocte revectus equis.' Pluraque pingebat, subitus cum Pergama fluctus Abstulit et Rhesi cum duce castra..."