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Pict  (pkt)

n.

One of an ancient people of northern Britain. They remained undefeated by the Romans and in the ninth century joined with the Scots to form a kingdom later to become Scotland.

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[From Middle English Pictes, Picts, from Late Latin Pict, from Latin pict, pl. of pictus, painted; see picture.]

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Pict [pɪkt]

n

(Social Science / Peoples) a member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde in the first to the fourth centuries ad: later applied chiefly to the inhabitants of NE Scotland. Throughout Roman times the Picts carried out border raids

[Old English Peohtas; later forms from Late Latin Pictī painted men, from pingere to paint]

Translations

Pict [pɪkt] N → picto/a m/f

Pict

n → Pikte m, → Piktin f