Pictor

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).

Pictor

1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.

• Pictoris

• Kapteyn's Star

• -tropic, Tropic, protic, tropic

From pictor (“painter”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɪk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpik.t̪or]

Pictor m sg (genitive Pictōris); third declension

1. a cognomen famously held by:
   1. Quīntus Fabius Pictor, a Roman politician

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “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.