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Where does “pycture” come from?

pycture (Middle English) comes from Old French picture, from Latin pictūra, from Latin pingō, from Proto-Indo-European peyḱ- — to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to...

Ancestry of “pycture”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpicture—
2Latinpictūra—
3Latinpingō—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpeyḱ-to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to...

Words derived from “pycture”

  • picture
  • pictures
  • picturesque
  • picturesqueness
  • picturesquely
  • unpicturesque
  • picturable
  • pictureless
  • picturization
  • pictural
  • unpicturable
  • depicture
  • unpicturesquely
  • subpicture
  • unpicturesqueness
  • picturize
  • picturephone
  • multipicture
  • repicture
  • picturise
  • impictured
  • picturer
  • picturegoer
  • telepicture
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