peindre

Inherited from Middle French paindre, from Old French peindre, paindre, inherited from Latin pingere (“to paint”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃dʁ/

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peindre

1. (transitive) to paint

   Jaquinot adore peindre des portraits de ses parents et de ses amis. Il a beaucoup de talent.

   Jaquinot loves to paint portraits of his parents and his friends. He is very talented.

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

• papier peint

• dépeindre

• peintre
• peinture
• pictural
• pigment
• pittoresque

• Haitian Creole: penn

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

From Old French peindre, from Latin pingō, pingere (“decorate, embellish; paint, tint, colour”).

peindre (gerund peindréthie)

1. (Jersey) to paint

• peintre

• paindre, poindre

From Latin pingere, present active infinitive of pingō (“I paint”).

peindre

1. to paint (cover with paint; especially in a decorative or artistic way)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• peintier (whence the English 'paint')

• Middle French: paindre
  • French: peindre
    • → Esperanto: pentri
• Norman: peindre
• → Middle English: peynten
  • English: paint