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Pict
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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.

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

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] Npicto/a m/f
Pict
nPikte m, → Piktin f


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