Translation
portrait
Word origin
From French portrait, the past participle of portraire ('to draw forth, to depict'), from Latin protrahere, to drag out into view. English portray and protract come from the same Latin verb.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- protrahere
- English cognates
- portrait, portray, protract
Examples
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A portrait of her mother hangs on the wall.
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He drew a portrait of his friend.
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That portrait shows a young woman.
Nothing to do with (to carry), despite the opening syllable: the French - here is Latin pro-, forward, and the second half is trahere, to drag. A is of a person, so a landscape is a and a picture in general is a . The verb portreti exists for painting one, and a written character sketch counts as a too, exactly as in English.
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