peintre

Meaning

painter (artist)

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɛ̃tʁ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French paintre, from Old French peintre, paintre, from the nominative case of Vulgar Latin *pinctor, from Classical Latin pictor (“painter”). Cf. also the Old French forms peintor, paintor, poentor, from the Vulgar Latin accusative *pinctorem.

Sentences

Il est aussi peintre et écrivain .

He is also a painter and writer.

Sung-nam, un jeune peintre coréen , doit , pour échapper à une arrestation fuir son pays .

Sung-nam, a young Korean painter, must flee his country to escape arrest.

Il est surtout connu comme peintre de natures mortes .

He is best known as a still life painter.

Le plus illustre peintre de cette école est Stefan Lochner.

The most illustrious painter of this school is Stefan Lochner.

Il est le benjamin du peintre et sculpteur Piero Fantastichini.

He is the youngest of the painter and sculptor Piero Fantastichini.

Le peintre a multiplié les symboles qui rendent la jeune femme irréelle .

The painter has multiplied the symbols that make the young woman unreal.

Stéphane Rezanets travaille à Moscou comme peintre titulaire du Palais des Armures .

Stéphane Rezanets works in Moscow as a painter holding the Armour Palace.