dē-līnĕo Copy link ⓘdēlīneāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pldēlīneātē: adverbial • dē-līnĕo, also dēlīnĭo, āvi, 1, v. a. [linea], to sketch out, to delineate: imaginem in pariete carbone, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 89; Tert. adv. Val. 4; id. Res. Carn. 20 init.
dēlīnĕō Copy link ⓘdēlīneāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pldēlīneātē: adverbial • dēlīnĕō ou dēlīnĭō, āvī, ātum, āre (de, linea), tr., esquisser, tracer, dessiner : Plin. 35, 89 ; Tert. Val. 4.
delineo Copy link ⓘdēlīneāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pldēlīneātē: adverbial DELINEO âre. [διαγράφω] Lineamenta formae ducere. […] 🗁 Page Scan
DĒLĪNĔO Copy link ⓘdēlīneāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pldēlīneātē: adverbial DĒLĪNĔO ↗Open in new tab (delineo)
delineate Copy link Outline I. To mark out with a lineII. To represent by lines or words; limn, sketch, describe1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 32. (verbis) exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 33. pōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 34. ĭmĭtor, 15. ădumbro, 1 • delineate: I. To mark out with a line: descrībo, dēlīneo, dēsigno: v. to mark out, describe. II. To represent by lines or words; limn, sketch, describe: 1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3: a painter could not d. his figure more exactly, non potuit pictor rectius d. ejus formam, Pl.: so of character, Cic.: v. to describe. 2. (verbis) exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3: Join: exprimere et effingere verbis, Auct. Her.: also with oratione, Cic.: v. represent. 3. pōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3: to d. a man, a god, hominem, deum p., Hor. 4. ĭmĭtor, 1: v. to imitate. 5. ădumbro, 1: v. to sketch.
DELINEATE Copy link • DELINEATEPROP., To draw the outline of anything, describere (in all the meanings of the English word): alicujus rei primas lineas ducere (IMPROP., in Quintilian of the first sketch of a subject): primis lineis designare aliquid (Quint.; IMPROP., but both may be used PROP.): exprimere imaginem alicujus rei (especially in order to give an exact representation of anything): formam alicujus describere (to delineate the whole form): speciem or imaginem operis alicujus deformare (Vitrvius): delineare imaginem alicujus (post-classical, Plin.; to draw a sketch): exscribere imaginem alicujus (to copy): aliquem or aliquid depingere (to delineate or depict). Draw; paint; Vid: to delineate the River Himera like a woman, both in form and dress, Himeram in muliebrem formam habitumque formare: to delineate the gods like men, deos in humani oris speciem assimilare (Tac.). FIG., To give a lively representation of anything in words, dicendo effingere alicujus rei imaginem; exponere; exprimere (to make visible, as it were, by words, exprimere also with the addition of oratione): adumbrare aliquid or speciem et formam alicujus rei (to shadow out, and place anything in its proper light; of painters and orators): describere (to delineate characteristically, χαρακτηρἰζειν): deformare aliquem (is sometimes used in a bad sense; Vid: Cic., caelius, 2, init.): to delineate badly, male narrare rem. If there exists such a woman as I have just delineated, si qua mulier sit hujusmodi, qualem ego paullo ante descripsi (Cic.).