Other forms: depicted, depicting, depicts
To depict is to show or describe something in a picture or words. Depict the scene, depicted as a hero, accurately depicted.
It is about the representation rather than the thing, which is why it takes as so readily: depicted as reckless. It is used constantly in art history and in criticism of how groups are shown in media. Note depiction; and that the Latin means to paint, from pingere, which also gives picture and pigment.
1verbdepictTo show or describe something in a picture or words.
“The painting depicts a busy market scene in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.”
depict is a representing.
Latin depingere is de plus pingere, to paint. Picture, pigment and paint come from the same painting.
Latin
dēpictus
Middle English
depicten
English, today
depict
From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA