Pingo, pingis, pinxi, pictum, píngere. Pli. To paint: to deuise: to drawe out the shape and forine of a thing: to distinct with diuers coulours. Per translationem. To descriue.Pingere formam hominis.Cic.Moris sanguineis pingit frontem.Virg.Pingere mero in mensa. Tibul. With wine shed on the table to drawe out the forme of things.Pingere humum varijs floribus. Plautus. To spreade on the ground floures of diuers coulours and fashions.Iuuenile decus mihi pingere malas Cœpit.Ouid.I beganne, as it beseemed a yong man, to blush, and haue a paire of red cheekes.Membra pingere ferro. Cland. Palloribus omnia pingunt. Lucret. Indiscretæ pingere imaginis similitudines. Plin. Tabulas pingere.Cic.Tempora anni pingebant viridantes floribus herbas. Luer. The time of the yere did garnish the greene hearbs with gay flowers.Tempora sutilibus pinguntur tecta coronis.Ouid.Acu pingere.Ouid. Vide ACVS. To embroder. Pingere, per translationÊ, Ci.To set in order: to garnish.Bibliothecam mihi tui pinxerunt constructione. In verbis pingendis & illuminandis sententijs. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3, v. a., to represent pictorially with the pencil or needle, to paint, embroider (cf.: depingo, delineo, adumbro). I.Lit.: quas (comas) Dione Pingitur sustinuisse manu,
, id. Brut. 75: pingere hominis speciem, id. de Or. 2, 16, 69: Helenae simulacrum, id. Inv. 2, 1, 1: Nero princeps jusserat colosseum se pingi, Plin. 35, 7, 33, 51.—Prov.: quae dicunt ii, qui numquam philosophum pictum, ut dicitur, viderunt, of those who speak of things they know nothing about, Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 80.— Of embroidering (with or without acu): textile stragulum, magnificis operibus pictum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: pingere acu, Ov. M. 6, 23: picti reges,
in embroidered garments
, Mart. 10, 72, 7: picti tori,
with embroidered coverlets
, Ov. H. 12, 30: toga,
the embroidered toga worn by a triumphing commander
, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 11.—B.Transf.1.To paint, stain, color with any thing (mostly poet.): palloribus omnia pingunt, Lucr. 4, 311; 2, 375: sanguineis frontem moris et tempora pingit, Verg. E. 6, 22; 2, 50; Mart. 14, 5, 2: multas facies, Juv. 9, 146: oculos, id. 2, 94; so, oculos stibio, Vulg. Jer. 4, 30. —Esp., to tattoo: Agathyrsi ora artusque pingunt iisdem omnes notis, et sic ut ablui nequeunt, Mel. 2, 1, 10: membraque qui ferro gaudet pinxisse Gelonus, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 313.—2.To adorn, decorate, embellish: herbas floribus, Lucr. 5, 1396: bibliothecam aliquā re, Cic. Att. 4, 5, 3: stellis pingitur aether, Sen. Med. 310.—II.Trop., of style, to paint, color, embellish: verba, Cic. Brut. 37, 141: tabula, quam Cleanthes sane commode verbis depingere solebat, id. Fin. 2, 21, 69: locus, quem ego varie meis orationibus soleo pingere, id. Att. 1, 14, 3: modo mihi date Britanniam, quam pingam coloribus tuis penicillo meo, id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, a, 2: hunc (virum) omnibus a me pictum et politum artis coloribus subito deformatum vidi, id. Att. 2, 21, 4.—Hence, pictus, a, um, P. a., painted, colored, of various colors.A.Lit.: volucres, Verg. A. 4, 525: pelles, id. G. 4, 342: absint et picti squalentia terga lacerti, id. ib. 4, 13: puppes, id. A. 5, 663: carinae, id. ib. 8, 93.—B.Transf., tattooed: Geloni, Verg. G. 2, 115: Agathyrsi, id. A. 4, 146 Forbig. ad loc.; Prisc. Perieg. 302.—2. Of style, ornamented, ornate: orationis pictum et expolitum genus, Cic. Or. 27, 96: Lysiā nihil potest esse pictius, id. Brut. 95, 293.—3.Merely painted, i. e. unreal, false, deceptive, empty, vain: pictos experiere metus, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 50.