Where does “pictures” come from?

Pictures derives from Middle English pycture, Old French picture, and Latin pictura, the noun form of Latin pictus, past participle of pingere and pingo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European peh₂ǵ-.

pictures (English): plural of picture; API pl; cinema, movie theatre

Definitions

  1. plural of picture; API pl; cinema, movie theatre

Ancestry of “pictures”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpictureA representation of anything upon canvas, paper,...
2Middle Englishpycture—
3Old Frenchpicture—
4Latinpictūrapainting, the art of painting
5Latinpingōto decorate, adorn, embellish
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpeyḱ-to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to...

Words derived from “pictures”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peyḱ- →Every word from Latin pingō →Every word from Latin pictūra →