The story
- Latin · learned borrowing frompictūra“a painting”
- English todaypictura
Learned borrowing from Latin pictūra (“a painting”). Doublet of picture.
Words from the same roots
Latinpictūra all →
picture
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pictura
Today it means: The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols. Full definition →
Latin pictūra