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Translation

to paint

Word origin

From French peindre ('to paint'), whose stem peint- Zamenhof reshaped as pentr-; ultimately from Latin pingere, the root behind English paint, picture and pigment.

Origin
French
Root
pingere
English cognates
paint, picture, pigment

Examples

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She painted a beautiful picture of the sea.

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The child is painting a yellow sun on paper.

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Who painted that old picture on the wall?

is painting as art: pictures, portraits, a sunset on canvas. Coating a wall or a fence with paint is farbi, from German Farbe. The painter of pictures is a ; compare , which is drawing with lines rather than colour.

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This word is part of lesson 26.