painture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture I near adjoining lay"
- "And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English peynture, from Old French peinture, from Late Latin *pinctūra; by surface analysis, paint + -ure. See paint and compare picture.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: peynture, peinture, *pinctūra