"Pict" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɪkt/ Forms: Picts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪkt Etymology: From Latin Pictus, probably rendering a Pictish autonym; see the Latin entry for details. Compare Old English Peohtas, which appears to show the effects of Grimm's law. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|Pictus}} Latin Pictus, {{der|en|xpi|-}} Pictish, {{cog|ang|Peohtas}} Old English Peohtas Head templates: {{en-noun}} Pict (plural Picts)
  1. A member of an ancient people of northern and central Scotland. Derived forms: Pictish, Pictland Translations (member of an ancient people of northern and central Scotland): pikti [masculine] (Faroese), pikti (Finnish), Picte (French), Pikte [masculine] (German), pikt (Hungarian), Cruithneach [masculine] (Irish), Cruithean (Irish), picto [masculine] (Italian), pitto [masculine] (Italian), Brithwr (Middle Welsh), Piht [masculine] (Old English), Cruithen (Old Irish), Pikt [masculine] (Polish), picto [masculine] (Portuguese), pict [masculine] (Romanian), пикт (pikt) (Russian), Pecht (Scots), Cruithneach (Scottish Gaelic), picto [masculine] (Spanish), pikt [common-gender] (Swedish), Pikt (Turkish), Picti (Welsh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.