Pictn.adj.

Brit.

/pɪkt/, U.S.

/pɪk(t)/

Forms:

α. Old English Pehtas (plural), Old English Peohtas (plural), Old English Pihtas (plural), Old English Piohtas (plural), Old English Pyhtas (plural), early Middle English Peoht (south-west midlands), early Middle English Peut (south-west midlands), Middle English Peght, Middle English Peghte, Middle English Peghttes (plural), Middle English Pehet, Middle English Pehit, Middle English Peiht, Middle English Pette, Middle English Peyt, Middle English Peyte, Middle English Pihte, Middle English Pohete, Middle English–1500s Peight, 1800s Piht; Scottish pre-1700 Paycht, pre-1700 Peicht, pre-1700 Peth, pre-1700 Peyth, pre-1700 Peytht, pre-1700 Pych, pre-1700 Pycht, pre-1700 1700s Pight, pre-1700 1700s– Pech, pre-1700 1700s– Pecht, pre-1700 1800s– Picht, pre-1700 1900s– Peight, pre-1700 1900s– Peycht, 1700s Paight, 1700s–1800s Pegh, 1700s–1800s Peght, 1700s– Peht, 1800s Peaght, 1800s Peiht.

β. Middle English Picttis (plural), Middle English Pyct, Middle English– Pict; Scottish pre-1700 Pikt, pre-1700 1700s– Pict, 1700s (1800s Orkney) Pik, 1900s– Pick (Orkney), 1900s– Pike (Orkney).

Also (in sense A. 1b) with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Picti.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin Picti, plural (a297), identical in form with and probably < classical Latin pictī , plural of the past participle of pingere paint v.¹, on account of their alleged habit of painting or tattooing their bodies, but compare also the native names Pictavi and Pictones in Gaul (Poitou). The β. forms represent a later reborrowing from post-classical Latin. Compare Scot n.¹No self-appellation of the Picts is known, but their traditional name in Welsh is Prydyn ( > Early Irish Cruithin Picts) < a variant of the British base of Welsh Prydain Britons (see Britain n.¹). Compare Early Irish Picardach, Irish †Pict (16th cent.), Welsh†Pict (14th cent.), Ffichti, Ffichtiaid, both plural (14th cent., also denoting the inhabitants of Poitou, now rare), Peithwyr, plural (1894), all learned borrowings from post-classical Latin.

A. n.

a. Scottish History. A member of a Celtic people, first mentioned in the late 3rd cent. a.d., who inhabited what is now northern and eastern Scotland (cf. Pictland n.).At some point after the 9th cent. the name of the Picts fell out of use as a contemporary designation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > ancient Pict > [noun]

PictOE

α.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28 Ða ferdon Peohtas in Breotone, & ongunnon eardigan þa norðdælas þyses ealondes... Mid þy Peohtas wif næfdon, bædon him fram Scottum... Þa..æfter Bryttum & Peohtum, þridde cynn Scotta Breotone onfeng on Pehta dæle, ða wæron cumene of Hibernia.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 449 Se cyning Wyrtgeorn gef heom [sc. the Angles] land on suðaneastan ðissum lande, wiððan þe hi sceoldon feohton wið Pyhtas.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4948 Rodric..brohte mid him þe Peohtes [c1300 Otho Peutes], folc of muchele mahte.

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 139 (MED) Out of peihtes lond þer came A kniht þat Rollo was his name.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 4125 (MED) Peghttes and paynymes..disspoylles oure knyghttes.

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) iv. 1757 A company Out of þe kynrik of Sithi Coyme of Peychtis [a1550 Wemyss Pightis] in Irlande.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 198 The Pechtes..called a counsel.

1639 in Sc. Antiquary (1889) 3 133 The old towne of the Pights called Abernithie.

1693 R. Sibbald Ess. Thule of Ancients in J. Wallace Descr. Isles Orkney 15 The wall betwixt Tyne and Solway Firth..was built to exclude the Pights.

1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. x. 367 The common denomination among the people of Scotland, from the Pehts Wall in Northumberland to the Pehts houses in Ross-shire, and up to the Orkneys, is Pehts.

1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. ii. 30 (note) The Ancient Picts, or, as they [sc. the inhabitants of the Orkneys] call them with the usual strong guttural, Peghts.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 415/2 He [sc. Arthur] received intelligence of the revolt of Modred, who had allied himself with the Saxons, Scots, and Pihts.

β. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 147 (MED) Þei beeþ i-cleped Pictes [L. Picti] by cause of peyntynge of woundes þat beeþ i-sene on hire bodies.a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 48 (MED) Fiue moner of pepull here dwellyd þo..Pictis and Scottys and Hyrysshe also..Denmarkes..And þe Saxsones.a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 115 (MED) The Scottes and the Pyctes..bete and oppressid this lande.a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) iv. f. 39^v In thir dayis the cuntre men gaif thame to name Pictis quhilk may be interpret payntit owder becaus of the plesand forme of thare persouns or fra the variant coloure of thare clething.1682 C. Irvine Historiæ Scoticæ Nomenclatura 186 Picti, the Picts, an ancient people.a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 111 Shetland abounds with..stone houses, not infrequent on Orkney, which they ascribe to the Picts.1757 W. Maitland Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. I. x. 82 That the Picts were the same people with the Gael..is beyond contradiction.1788 J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. Scotl. I. 14 I mean the people known by the name of Picts, or, as the vulgar call them, Peghts.1813 J. Grant Orig. Gael (1814) 292 The Picts of Albinn..inhabited the whole range of low country from the Frith of Forth, northward.1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 51/2 The country now forming the shires of Aberdeen and Banff was originally peopled by northern Picts.1992 D. Dunnett King Hereafter (BNC) 692 The civil onslaughts that led to the fusion of Pict and Scot, of Scandinavian and Gael.

b. Chiefly in α forms. A member of an imaginary race of small dark people, identified in Scottish folklore with the ancient Picts, and often believed to dwell underground (cf. Picts' house n. (a) at Compounds); a dwarf, gnome, troll, etc.Identification of the Picts as supernatural beings was possibly strengthened (in later use) by association with pixie n.

ΚΠ

1729 T. Inne tr. Henry of Huntingdon in Crit. Ess. on Anc. Inhabitants N. Brit. i. 147 The Picts seemed then [i.e. by the 12th cent.] so far extinct, and their language so utterly destroyed, that all that was recorded of them in ancient history, appeared a meer fable.]

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 93^v A peght or pigmei, pigmeus.

1794 J. L. Buchanan Def. Scots Highlanders 127 Common tradition confirms this; they [sc. the vulgar] imagine that the Pechs, though invisible by day to men, could perform any hard piece of labour... In latter times the Pechs were called Brownies.

1868 Harper's Mag. Dec. 41/1 A mischievous, dwarfish Pict and an eminent Pixy.

1905 Reliquary Apr. 77 Mothers and grandmothers..told their offspring that ‘the caves were bigget by the Pechs—short wee men wi' red hair and long arms’.

1934 W. Moffat Shetland 139 The memory of the ‘pechts’ lives on among the folk-lore of the people as of a race of gnomes, bringing evil.

1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 38 The strange folk who inhabited these windswept islands during Orkney's days of innocence..trows, peights, fairy people, geyros, fin folk—and giants.

2. humorous. A woman who paints her face, or uses make-up. rare.In later use only in imitation of or allusion to quot. 1711.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > one who applies preparations for the complexion > one who paints or colours

paintress1633

Pict1711

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 41. ⁋4 I have..distinguished those of our Women who wear their own, from those in borrowed Complexions, by the Picts and the British.

1892 Daily News 8 Dec. 5/1 Men must be tolerant of ‘Picts’, as the old ‘Spectator’ calls them, or Picts would not be so prevalent.

1919 Times 29 Oct. 10/1 The ladies..wear a little coat of paint, which particularity has gained them the name of Picts.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of or relating to the Picts; Pictish.

ΚΠ

1650 Irish Monthly Mercury No. 1 6 'Twere better make an Irish Tweed, or a Pict wal, & keep them on the North side of it.

1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 8 Grisly Drædan sat alane By the cairn and Pech stane.

1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson II. xiv. 280 We had a drive of ten miles to Maeshowe, a Pict burial-mound.

1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite ii. 142 An antique tunnel that the first Pict settlers had made and lined with uncalsayed stones, set deep in earth, more than two thousand years before.

Compounds

Picts' house n. Scottish Archaeology any of various ancient dwellings in northern Scotland and the Northern and Western Isles, formerly thought to have been built by the Picts, esp. (a) an underground dwelling (cf. weem n.); (b) a circular stone fortified dwelling.

ΚΠ

1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 20 There being several old houses..which to this day are called Picts or Pights Houses.

1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 6 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland There are in most of the Parishes Picts Houses, as they call them, they are some of them of a Pyramidal Form [etc.].

1821 W. Scott Pirate II. xiv. 320 One of those dens which are called Burghs and Picts-houses in Zetland.

1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers.

1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 50/1 Picks' hoose, a general name for what appears to be any prehistoric dwelling.

Picts' wall n. now English regional (northern) Hadrian's Wall.

ΚΠ

1590 W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) 649 (margin) Murus, sive the Picts Wall.

1707 R. Sibbald Hist. Inq. i. iv. 19 The learned Mr. Burton..saith of the Picts Wall, that the Limes or Bound of the Empire was there, about the time this Itinerary [sc. of Antoninus] was published.

1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. x. 367 The Pehts Wall in Northumberland.

1891 C. Bates Border Holds Northumberland 323 Till quite recently our Wall always appeared on maps as the Picts' Wall.

1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 47 Pict's Wall, The Roman Wall extending from the Solway to Wallsend.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pict
释义	Pictn.adj. Brit. /pɪkt/, U.S. /pɪk(t)/ Forms: α. Old English Pehtas (plural), Old English Peohtas (plural), Old English Pihtas (plural), Old English Piohtas (plural), Old English Pyhtas (plural), early Middle English Peoht (south-west midlands), early Middle English Peut (south-west midlands), Middle English Peght, Middle English Peghte, Middle English Peghttes (plural), Middle English Pehet, Middle English Pehit, Middle English Peiht, Middle English Pette, Middle English Peyt, Middle English Peyte, Middle English Pihte, Middle English Pohete, Middle English–1500s Peight, 1800s Piht; Scottish pre-1700 Paycht, pre-1700 Peicht, pre-1700 Peth, pre-1700 Peyth, pre-1700 Peytht, pre-1700 Pych, pre-1700 Pycht, pre-1700 1700s Pight, pre-1700 1700s– Pech, pre-1700 1700s– Pecht, pre-1700 1800s– Picht, pre-1700 1900s– Peight, pre-1700 1900s– Peycht, 1700s Paight, 1700s–1800s Pegh, 1700s–1800s Peght, 1700s– Peht, 1800s Peaght, 1800s Peiht. β. Middle English Picttis (plural), Middle English Pyct, Middle English– Pict; Scottish pre-1700 Pikt, pre-1700 1700s– Pict, 1700s (1800s Orkney) Pik, 1900s– Pick (Orkney), 1900s– Pike (Orkney). Also (in sense A. 1b) with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Picti. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Picti, plural (a297), identical in form with and probably < classical Latin pictī , plural of the past participle of pingere paint v.¹, on account of their alleged habit of painting or tattooing their bodies, but compare also the native names Pictavi and Pictones in Gaul (Poitou). The β. forms represent a later reborrowing from post-classical Latin. Compare Scot n.¹No self-appellation of the Picts is known, but their traditional name in Welsh is Prydyn ( > Early Irish Cruithin Picts) < a variant of the British base of Welsh Prydain Britons (see Britain n.¹). Compare Early Irish Picardach, Irish †Pict (16th cent.), Welsh†Pict (14th cent.), Ffichti, Ffichtiaid, both plural (14th cent., also denoting the inhabitants of Poitou, now rare), Peithwyr, plural (1894), all learned borrowings from post-classical Latin. A. n. 1. a. Scottish History. A member of a Celtic people, first mentioned in the late 3rd cent. a.d., who inhabited what is now northern and eastern Scotland (cf. Pictland n.).At some point after the 9th cent. the name of the Picts fell out of use as a contemporary designation. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient Pict > [noun] PictOE α. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 28 Ða ferdon Peohtas in Breotone, & ongunnon eardigan þa norðdælas þyses ealondes... Mid þy Peohtas wif næfdon, bædon him fram Scottum... Þa..æfter Bryttum & Peohtum, þridde cynn Scotta Breotone onfeng on Pehta dæle, ða wæron cumene of Hibernia. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 449 Se cyning Wyrtgeorn gef heom [sc. the Angles] land on suðaneastan ðissum lande, wiððan þe hi sceoldon feohton wið Pyhtas. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4948 Rodric..brohte mid him þe Peohtes [c1300 Otho Peutes], folc of muchele mahte. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 139 (MED) Out of peihtes lond þer came A kniht þat Rollo was his name. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 4125 (MED) Peghttes and paynymes..disspoylles oure knyghttes. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) iv. 1757 A company Out of þe kynrik of Sithi Coyme of Peychtis [a1550 Wemyss Pightis] in Irlande. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 198 The Pechtes..called a counsel. 1639 in Sc. Antiquary (1889) 3 133 The old towne of the Pights called Abernithie. 1693 R. Sibbald Ess. Thule of Ancients in J. Wallace Descr. Isles Orkney 15 The wall betwixt Tyne and Solway Firth..was built to exclude the Pights. 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. x. 367 The common denomination among the people of Scotland, from the Pehts Wall in Northumberland to the Pehts houses in Ross-shire, and up to the Orkneys, is Pehts. 1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. ii. 30 (note) The Ancient Picts, or, as they [sc. the inhabitants of the Orkneys] call them with the usual strong guttural, Peghts. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 415/2 He [sc. Arthur] received intelligence of the revolt of Modred, who had allied himself with the Saxons, Scots, and Pihts. β. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 147 (MED) Þei beeþ i-cleped Pictes [L. Picti] by cause of peyntynge of woundes þat beeþ i-sene on hire bodies.a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 48 (MED) Fiue moner of pepull here dwellyd þo..Pictis and Scottys and Hyrysshe also..Denmarkes..And þe Saxsones.a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 115 (MED) The Scottes and the Pyctes..bete and oppressid this lande.a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) iv. f. 39^v In thir dayis the cuntre men gaif thame to name Pictis quhilk may be interpret payntit owder becaus of the plesand forme of thare persouns or fra the variant coloure of thare clething.1682 C. Irvine Historiæ Scoticæ Nomenclatura 186 Picti, the Picts, an ancient people.a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 111 Shetland abounds with..stone houses, not infrequent on Orkney, which they ascribe to the Picts.1757 W. Maitland Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. I. x. 82 That the Picts were the same people with the Gael..is beyond contradiction.1788 J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. Scotl. I. 14 I mean the people known by the name of Picts, or, as the vulgar call them, Peghts.1813 J. Grant Orig. Gael (1814) 292 The Picts of Albinn..inhabited the whole range of low country from the Frith of Forth, northward.1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 51/2 The country now forming the shires of Aberdeen and Banff was originally peopled by northern Picts.1992 D. Dunnett King Hereafter (BNC) 692 The civil onslaughts that led to the fusion of Pict and Scot, of Scandinavian and Gael. b. Chiefly in α forms. A member of an imaginary race of small dark people, identified in Scottish folklore with the ancient Picts, and often believed to dwell underground (cf. Picts' house n. (a) at Compounds); a dwarf, gnome, troll, etc.Identification of the Picts as supernatural beings was possibly strengthened (in later use) by association with pixie n. ΚΠ 1729 T. Inne tr. Henry of Huntingdon in Crit. Ess. on Anc. Inhabitants N. Brit. i. 147 The Picts seemed then [i.e. by the 12th cent.] so far extinct, and their language so utterly destroyed, that all that was recorded of them in ancient history, appeared a meer fable.] ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 93^v A peght or pigmei, pigmeus. 1794 J. L. Buchanan Def. Scots Highlanders 127 Common tradition confirms this; they [sc. the vulgar] imagine that the Pechs, though invisible by day to men, could perform any hard piece of labour... In latter times the Pechs were called Brownies. 1868 Harper's Mag. Dec. 41/1 A mischievous, dwarfish Pict and an eminent Pixy. 1905 Reliquary Apr. 77 Mothers and grandmothers..told their offspring that ‘the caves were bigget by the Pechs—short wee men wi' red hair and long arms’. 1934 W. Moffat Shetland 139 The memory of the ‘pechts’ lives on among the folk-lore of the people as of a race of gnomes, bringing evil. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 38 The strange folk who inhabited these windswept islands during Orkney's days of innocence..trows, peights, fairy people, geyros, fin folk—and giants. 2. humorous. A woman who paints her face, or uses make-up. rare.In later use only in imitation of or allusion to quot. 1711. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > one who applies preparations for the complexion > one who paints or colours paintress1633 Pict1711 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 41. ⁋4 I have..distinguished those of our Women who wear their own, from those in borrowed Complexions, by the Picts and the British. 1892 Daily News 8 Dec. 5/1 Men must be tolerant of ‘Picts’, as the old ‘Spectator’ calls them, or Picts would not be so prevalent. 1919 Times 29 Oct. 10/1 The ladies..wear a little coat of paint, which particularity has gained them the name of Picts. B. adj. (attributive). Of or relating to the Picts; Pictish. ΚΠ 1650 Irish Monthly Mercury No. 1 6 'Twere better make an Irish Tweed, or a Pict wal, & keep them on the North side of it. 1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 8 Grisly Drædan sat alane By the cairn and Pech stane. 1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson II. xiv. 280 We had a drive of ten miles to Maeshowe, a Pict burial-mound. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite ii. 142 An antique tunnel that the first Pict settlers had made and lined with uncalsayed stones, set deep in earth, more than two thousand years before. Compounds Picts' house n. Scottish Archaeology any of various ancient dwellings in northern Scotland and the Northern and Western Isles, formerly thought to have been built by the Picts, esp. (a) an underground dwelling (cf. weem n.); (b) a circular stone fortified dwelling. ΚΠ 1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 20 There being several old houses..which to this day are called Picts or Pights Houses. 1711 R. Sibbald Descr. Isles Shetland 6 in Descr. Isles Orknay & Zetland There are in most of the Parishes Picts Houses, as they call them, they are some of them of a Pyramidal Form [etc.]. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. xiv. 320 One of those dens which are called Burghs and Picts-houses in Zetland. 1918 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics X. 6/2 The so-called ‘Picts' houses’ or ‘earth houses’—low underground passages terminating in one or more chambers. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 50/1 Picks' hoose, a general name for what appears to be any prehistoric dwelling. Picts' wall n. now English regional (northern) Hadrian's Wall. ΚΠ 1590 W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) 649 (margin) Murus, sive the Picts Wall. 1707 R. Sibbald Hist. Inq. i. iv. 19 The learned Mr. Burton..saith of the Picts Wall, that the Limes or Bound of the Empire was there, about the time this Itinerary [sc. of Antoninus] was published. 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. x. 367 The Pehts Wall in Northumberland. 1891 C. Bates Border Holds Northumberland 323 Till quite recently our Wall always appeared on maps as the Picts' Wall. 1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 47 Pict's Wall, The Roman Wall extending from the Solway to Wallsend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pictv. Forms: late Middle English pycte. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pict-, pingere. Etymology: < classical Latin pict-, past participial stem of pingere paint v.¹ Obsolete. rare. transitive. To paint (an image), to depict, represent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially figurec1380 pict1483 picture1490 describe1526 delineate1566 shadow1576 blaze1579 depicturec1593 limn1593 depaint1598 depict1631 depinge1657 picturize1796 feature1807 repicture1810 pictorialize1844 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 They ne shold fro thens forthon pourtrayne nor pycte the forme or fygure of the crosse. 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Pictn.adj.

Compounds

† pictv.