peintre

Inherited from Middle French paintre, from Old French peintre, paintre, from the nominative case of Vulgar Latin *pinctor, from Classical Latin pictor (“painter”). Cf. also the Old French forms peintor, paintor, poentor, from the Vulgar Latin accusative *pinctorem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃tʁ/

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• Homophone: peintres

peintre m or f by sense (plural peintres)

1. painter (artist)

• peindre
• peinture

• “peintre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• repeint, repenti

From Old French peintre, paintre, from the nominative case of Vulgar Latin *pinctor, from Classical Latin pictor (“painter”).

peintre m (plural peintres)

1. (Jersey) painter