English → Latin
“drawing” in Latin
grăphisA drawing-pencilīdoseidos, form, shapefīliusa son; any male descendant; childrenimāgōimage, imitation, likeness, statue, representation; ancestral image; ghost, apparitiondēsignōto mark; to trace out; to outline, describechartapapyrus, paper; a piece of papyrus or paper; a piece of writing, especially a letter, poem, or charter
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
drawing
(the art of)(the art of), graphis, idos, f. (γραφίς, Vitr., 1, 1, 4); pure Latin pictura linearis (Plin., 35, 3, 5): to have learnt drawing, graphidos scientiam habere; graphidos non imperitum esse: to invent drawing, or the art of drawing, picturam linearem invenire.
drawing
(i. e., the picture drawn)(i. e., the picture drawn), pictura linearis (general term); *tabella linearis: imago (image, picture): designate (a plan of a building, etc.): DRAWING-BOOK, *chartae, in quibus imagines ad imitandum propositae delineantur: *volumen imaginum, quae ad imitationem delineandi proponuntur (a book containing copies for drawing; after Quint., 1, 1, 35).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for drawing?
- The usual Latin words for “drawing” are grăphis, īdos, fīlius; also imāgō, dēsignō, charta. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.