Pict

American  

[pikt] / pɪkt /

noun

1. a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.

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Pict British  

/ pɪkt /

noun

1. a member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde in the first to the fourth centuries _ad : later applied chiefly to the inhabitants of NE Scotland. Throughout Roman times the Picts carried out border raids

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Etymology

Origin of Pict

before 900; back formation from Middle English Pictes (plural) < Latin Pictī literally, painted ones, plural of pictus, past participle of pingere to paint; replacing Middle English Peghttes, Old English Peohtas, Pihtas ≪ Latin, as above

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Example Sentences

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Pict

Robbie the Pict, who legally changed his name from Brian Robertson and founded the mini state of "Pictland" on an acre of land in Skye in 1977, led the protests.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

Prominent campaigner Robbie the Pict said the convictions should be quashed as a matter of principle.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

So the saint ordered another Pict to dive into the water.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence in the northern parts, at least, the word aber was used not because the country was Pict, but because it was British.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

They are, relatively to us, what the ancient Pict and Celt were to Britain, or the Teuton, Goth and Magyar to Continental Europe.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler) Hosmer

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