picture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A drawing, painting, or photograph of something or someone.

   They showed us the pictures from their wedding.

2. 2
   noun

   An image you form in your mind.

   The witness gave the police a clear picture of the man's face.

3. 3
   noun

   The general situation or state of something.

   The economic picture looks much brighter this year.

4. 4
   noun

   The image you see on a television or screen.

   We could hear the sound, but the picture had disappeared.

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Simplified etymology

Picture entered English in the late Middle English period and goes back to a form of Latin pingere “to paint.” Paint and pigment derive from the same Latin verb, as does depict through Latin depingere “portray.”

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

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