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Jun 4, 2020 · The expression a picture is worth a thousand words, attested from 1918, probably originated in the publication trade (the notion that a picture was worth 1,000 words is in printers' publications by 1911).
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Oct 4, 2023 · The earliest known use of the noun picture is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for picture is from before 1425, in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie.
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Etymology
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
Pronunciation
1. (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪk(t)ʃə/ 2. (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɪk(t)ʃəɹ/ 3. (US, regional) IPA(key): /ˈpɪt͡ʃəɹ/ 4. Homophone: pitcher (US, regional) 5. Rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ) 6. Hyphenation: pic‧ture
Noun
picture (plural pictures) 1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. 1.1. 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,[…], →OCLC: 1.1.1. Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead...
Etymology
From Old French picture, borrowed from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”) (compare the inherited Old French form peinture), from pingō, pingere (“paint; decorate, embellish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”).
Noun
picture f (plural pictures) 1. (Guernsey) picture
The word ‘emoji’ was developed in the 90s for Japanese teenagers to describe the faces they typed to each other on their pagers. But the word was not created randomly – ‘e’ means ‘picture’ and ‘moji’ means ‘character’ or ‘letter’.
The word picture entered English around 1375–1425, borrowed directly from the Latin word pictūra, “the act of painting, a painting.” The word is based on pict(us) , the past participle of the verb pingere , meaning “to paint.”
OED's earliest evidence for picture is from 1490, in a translation by William Caxton, printer, merchant, and diplomat. It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500). picture is formed within English, by conversion.
The Latin word Picti first occurs in a panegyric, a formal eulogising speech from 297 [12] and is most commonly explained as meaning 'painted' [13] (from Latin pingere 'to paint'; [14] pictus, 'painted', cf. Greek πυκτίς pyktis, 'picture' [15]).
