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Pictor

Pictor proper noun: a summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.

Proper noun

Pictor

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

Pictor meaning in Tamil and Malay

Pictor in Tamil

வர்ணம் பூசுபவர், ஓவியம் தீட்டுபவர்

Pictor in Malay

constellation
Pelukis

Origin of Pictor

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).

Words formed from Pictor

  • Pictoris

Questions about Pictor

What does Pictor mean?
Pictor means a summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.
What is Pictor in Tamil?
Pictor in Tamil is வர்ணம் பூசுபவர், ஓவியம் தீட்டுபவர். See Pictor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Pictor?
Pictor is a proper noun.

Words near Pictor in the dictionary

  1. Picton herrings
  2. Pictones
  3. Pictons
  4. pictophonetic
  5. pictophonetics
  6. Pictor
  7. pictoradiogram
  8. pictoradiograms
  9. pictoral
  10. pictorally
  11. pictorial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pictor (page history and authors); pictor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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