pingitur
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. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...quid tibi? Gallus eras. Florida per uarios ut pingitur Hybla colores, cum breue Sicaniae uer populantur apes..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...limite ducto. Nondum quisquam sidera norat, stellisque, quibus pingitur aether, non erat usus, nondum pluuias Hyadas poterat uitare..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...mures mustelarum exercitu(historia, quot sunt, in tabernis pingitur)fugerent et artos circum trepidarent cauos,aegre recepti, tamen..."Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...inesse suo! illis contulerim, quas quondam nuda Dione pingitur umenti sustinuisse manu. quid male dispositos quereris periisse capillos..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...fractis enatat exspes nauibus, aere dato qui pingitur? Amphora coepit institui; currente rota cur urceus exit? Denique..."