Pictor Definition

pĭktər
noun
A S constellation between Carina and Dorado.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.

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Origin of Pictor

  • Latin pictor painter from pingere to paint peig- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor, an "easel"

    From Wiktionary

Pictor Sentence Examples

  • Like Fabius Pictor, he wrote in Greek.

  • Livy regards him as a less trustworthy authority than Fabius Pictor, and Niebuhr considers him the first to introduce systematic forgeries into Roman history.

  • After the pontificate of Publius, the practice of compiling annals was carried on by various unofficial writers, of whom Cicero names Cato, Pictor and Piso.

  • Livy in general adheres to the epoch of Cato, though he sometimes follows that of Fabius Pictor.

  • Fabius Maximus Servilianus (consul 142); or there may have been two annalists of the name of Fabius Pictor.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIC

Words Ending With

RORTOR

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Words Starting With P and Ending With R

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With R