paint

• vt. 油漆；繪畫；裝飾；涂色于；描繪；（用語言，文字等）描寫；擦脂粉等
• vi. 油漆；描繪；繪畫；化妝
• n. 油漆；顏料，涂料；繪畫作品；胭脂等化妝品；色彩，裝飾
• n. 潘（人名）

來自古法語peintier,涂抹，繪畫，來自拉丁語pingere,涂抹，繪畫，來自PIE*peig,刻，切，詞源同picture,pigment,file.詞義由刻，雕刻，引申為裝飾，涂抹，繪畫，繪制。拼寫比較point,pungent.

paint

paint: [13] Paint comes ultimately from an Indo- European base *pik-, *pig-. This originally meant ‘cut’ (English file comes from it), but it broadened out via ‘decorate with cut marks’ and simply ‘decorate’ to ‘decorate with colour’ (whence English pigment). A nasalized version of the base produced Latin pingere ‘paint’, which reached English via Old French peindre and its past participle peint (the Latin past participle pictus is the source of English Pict and picture, and also lies behind depict).
=> depict, picture, pigment

paint (v.)

early 13c., "represent in painting or drawing, portray;" early 14c., "paint the surface of, color, stain;" from Old French peintier "to paint," from peint, past participle of peindre "to paint," from Latin pingere "to paint, represent in a picture, stain; embroider, tattoo," from PIE root *peig- (1), also *peik- "to cut" (cognates: Sanskrit pimsati "hews out, cuts, carves, adorns," Old Church Slavonic pila "file, saw," Lithuanian pela "file").

Sense evolution between PIE and Latin was, presumably, from "decorate with cut marks" to "decorate" to "decorate with color." Compare Sanskrit pingah "reddish," pesalah "adorned, decorated, lovely," Old Church Slavonic pegu "variegated;" Greek poikilos "variegated;" Old High German fehjan "to adorn;" Old Church Slavonic pisati, Lithuanian piesiu "to write." Probably also representing the "cutting" branch of the family is Old English feol (see file (n.2)).

To paint the town (red) "go on a spree" first recorded 1884; to paint (someone or something) black "represent it as wicked or evil" is from 1590s. Adjective paint-by-numbers "simple" is attested by 1970; the art-for-beginners kits themselves date to c. 1953.

paint (n.)

late 13c. (in compounds), "that with which something is painted," from paint (v.). Of rouge, make-up, etc., from 1650s. Paint brush attested from 1827.

1. The walls have been horribly vandalized with spray paint.

墻上被人用噴漆涂得亂七八糟。

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2. They pried open a sticky can of blue paint.

他們撬開了一個黏糊糊的藍(lán)色油漆桶。

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3. Rust and flaking paint mean the metalwork is in poor condition.

生銹和掉漆說明金屬配件損毀嚴(yán)重。

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4. I lay the painting flat to stop the wet paint running.

我把油畫平放以防止未干的顏料流動。

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5. The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint.

墻壁被用噴漆噴得一塌糊涂。

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