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picturae

picturae is the plural of pictura.

Meaning of pictura

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
  2. The pattern of coloration.

Questions about picturae

What is picturae the plural of?
Picturae is the plural of pictura.

Words near picturae in the dictionary

  1. pictura
  2. picturability
  3. picturable
  4. picturableness
  5. picturably
  6. picturae
  7. pictural
  8. picturality
  9. picturals
  10. picture
  11. picture black

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picturae (page history and authors); pictura (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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