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pictura

pictura noun: the picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.

Noun

pictura (plural picturae)

  1. The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
    • It is customary to distinguish three components in an emblem: the pictura or symbolic image or picture, accompanied by the preceding inscriptio or motto and the subsequent subscriptio, usually an explication in verse of the idea expressed in combination of the inscriptio and the pictura.2004, Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf, Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004), →ISBN, pages 57–58
    • Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, →ISBN, page 183
  2. The pattern of coloration.

Forms of pictura

pluralpicturae

Origin of pictura

Learned borrowing from Latin pictūra (“a painting”). Doublet of picture.

Questions about pictura

What does pictura mean?
Pictura means the picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
What part of speech is pictura?
Pictura is a noun.
What is the plural of pictura?
The plural of pictura is picturae.

Words near pictura in the dictionary

  1. Pictou disease
  2. Picts
  3. Picts' house
  4. Picts' houses
  5. pictumine
  6. pictura
  7. picturability
  8. picturable
  9. picturableness
  10. picturably
  11. picturae

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