Pictor

== English == === Etymology === Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”). === Proper noun === Pictor (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado. ==== Derived terms ==== Pictoris ==== Translations ==== === See also === Kapteyn's Star === Anagrams === -tropic, Tropic, protic, tropic == Latin == === Etymology === From pictor (“painter”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɪk.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpik.tor] === Proper noun === Pictor m sg (genitive Pictōris); third declension a cognomen famously held by: Quīntus Fabius Pictor, a Roman politician ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Pictor2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Pictor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.