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..."- L
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..." - G
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..." - P
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..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...fractis enatat exspes nauibus, aere dato qui pingitur? Amphora coepit institui; currente rota cur urceus exit? Denique..."