DEPICT Copy link • DEPICTPROPR., depingere: coloribus reddere (to depict or represent by colors; to paint): to depict figures, coloribus figuras depingere; a face, effingere oris lineamenta. [Vid: To PAINT]: repraesentare (represent; also of statuaries, etc., Plin.): pingere (PROP.; and also of orators, etc.): fingere, effingere (of statuaries; also of orators, etc.). FIG., dicendo effingere alicujus rei imaginem; exponere; exprimere (to depict or make visible, as it were, by words, exprimere, with the addition of oratione): adumbrare aliquid or speciemet formam alicujus rei (to depict, or represent with the proper lights and shades; of the painter and orator): describere (to depict or represent characteristically, χαρακτηριζειν). To depict a person’s character, alicujus vitam depingere; imaginem consuetudinis atque vitae alicujus exprimere [☞ not depingere aliquem].