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dipingere

paint

verb dee-PEEN-jeh-reh Less Common

Origin: from Latin 'depingere', portray

Also means

depict

Usage Note

Dipingere is to paint pictures (use verniciare for painting walls) and figuratively to depict in words. It has an irregular past participle, dipinto, which doubles as the noun for 'a painting'.

Examples

"Ama dipingere paesaggi marini."

Natural Translation

She loves to paint seascapes.

Literal Translation

She-loves to-paint landscapes marine.

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