English → Latin
“painting” in Latin
pingōto decorate, adorn, embellish; to paint, tint or colour; to portraytabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for writing; board or plank; map, painting, document or other item put onto tabellasmall board, tablet, or table (for writing); small piece of wood, board, plank, tray, trough; plaque, placard, signboardimāgōimage, imitation, likeness, statue, representation; ancestral image; ghost, apparitionpīccapickaxe, pike
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
painting
The art of painting, ars pingendi, ars picturae (Cic.), or simply pictura.
The act of painting, pictura.
A picture, pictura (the painting itself without respect of the materials; also, figuratively, of dramatic representation, or of description; Vid: Plaut., Mil., 4, 4, 52): tabula or (diminutively) tabella, with or without picta (the painting and the materials): imago, imago picta (a likeness, portrait; also, figuratively): to make a portrait of anything, depingere aliquid, imaginem alicujus rei exprimere (PROP. and figuratively); aliquid describere (figuratively): to hang a painting in a good light, tabulam in bono lumine collocare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for painting?
- The usual Latin words for “painting” are pingō, tabula, tabella; also imāgō, pīcca. 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.