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Definition: PICTS |
PICTSNoun plural1. A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times. |
Date "PICTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Picts \Picts\, noun. plural; sing. Pict. [Latin expression Picti; compare to Anglo-Saxon Peohtas.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Picts The inhabitants of Albin, north-east of Scotland. The name is usually said to be the Latin picti (painted [or tattooed] with woad), but in the Irish chronicles the Picts are called Pictones, Pictores, Piccardaig, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Picts inhabited Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth. We owe their name to the Romans: in Latin the word Picti means painted folk or possibly tattooed ones. The Picts spoke a language, Pictish, of which little is known.
Modern scholars believe that seven ancient Pictish Kingdoms existed:
However, good archaeological evidence and some written evidence suggests that a Pictish kingdom also existed in Orkney.
- Cait -- situated in modern Caithness and Sutherland
- Ce -- situated in modern Marr and Buchan
- Circinn -- situated in modern Angus and the Mearns
- Fib -- situated in the modern Fife and Kinross (Fife is still known as the Kingdom of Fife)
- Fidach -- situated in modern Moray and Ross
- Fotla -- situated in modern Atholl and Gowrie
- Fortriu -- situated in modern Strathearn and Menteith
From the 6th century AD onwards the Picts came under increasing pressure from the invasions of the Dalriadan Scots in the west and of the Vikings in the east. They defeated Dalriada militarily but intermarried repeatedly with the royal house of Dalriada until in 843 AD Kenneth Mac Alpin took the throne of a united kingdom of Scotland. Gaelic culture and Scots Gaelic gradually supplanted Pictish culture and the Pictish language.
It remains uncertain whether or not we should classify the Picts as Celts although most available placename evidence tends to support the theory that they were Brythonic Celts.
You can often tell where Pictish settlement has taken place in the past (in Scotland) from place names. Those prefixed with "Aber-", "Lhan-", "Pit-" or "Fin-" indicate the region was inhabited by Picts in the past (eg: Aberdeen, Lhanbryde, Pitmedden, Pittodrie, Findochty, etc).
See also: Kings of the Picts
External Links
- Pictish Nation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Picts."
Crosswords: PICTS |
| English words defined with "PICTS": Pictish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PICTS": Albin, Apostles, where buried ♦ Brut d'Angleterre ♦ Grahame's Dyke ♦ Ninian. (references) |
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| "Buenos Aires picts 8" by Guar Commentary: "This collection was taken on 2001." | "Tjärnöbilder 8" by Emma Gunnerblad Commentary: "Picts from the swedish west coast archipelago." |
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| "PICTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.15% of the time. "PICTS" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 83.15% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.85% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PICTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | pictes. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ictspay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PICTS": depicts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cist, pics, pits, spic, spit, tics, tips. | |
-2 letters: cis, its, pic, pis, pit, psi, sic, sip, sit, tic, tip, tis. | |
-3 letters: is, it, pi, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: optics, picots, script, septic, topics. | |
+2 letters: aseptic, catnips, cesspit, copyist, depicts, discept, impacts, incepts, inspect, pectins, peptics, photics, pickets, pitches, plastic, poetics, psoatic, sceptic, scripts, septics, skeptic, spastic, spathic, spicate, stickup, styptic, tipcats, triceps, tropics, upticks. | |
+3 letters: adscript, aplastic, apomicts, apricots, autopsic, campiest, campsite, cantrips, capitals, capitols, captains, captions, captious, captives, cesspits, chapatis, coalpits, cockpits, colpitis, copilots, copyists, coscript, crampits, crepiest, crispate, crispest, culprits, cuppiest, cuprites, despotic, dipstick, diptycas, diptychs, discepts, dispatch, ectopias, escapist, glyptics, hepatics, incipits, inspects, isotopic, isotypic, lickspit, lipstick, lopstick, mispatch, nitpicks, nutpicks, occiputs, opticist, pacifist, pactions, papistic, paretics, pasticci, pastiche, peckiest, pectines, pectizes, phthisic, pickiest, picotees, picquets, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, pigstick, piscator, pistache, pitchers, plastics, pockiest, politics, porticos, postiche, potassic, potiches, practise, predicts, priciest, prickets, psilotic, puristic, receipts, rescript, sceptics, scotopia, scotopic, scrimpit, scripted, scripter, septical, sinciput, skeptics, spaciest, spastics, speciate, spicated, spiccato, spiciest, stickpin, stickups, strophic, styptics, suboptic, subtopic, synaptic, synoptic, tapiocas, tieclasp, tipcarts, tipstock, topkicks, tripacks. | |
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