Pictones

Pictones pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose capital was Limonum.

   Synonym: Pictavi

• Pictāvī

The -on element suggests that the name was borrowed through Ancient Greek rather than coined, probably ultimately related to the Celtic origin of Pictus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.to.neːs/, [ˈpɪkt̪ɔneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.to.nes/, [ˈpikt̪ones]

Pictonēs m pl (genitive Pictonum); third declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose capital was Limonum

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• “Pictones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pictones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pictones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Hudson, Benjamin (2014): The Picts
• Smith, J.R. (1864): History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places in Their Connection with the Progress of Civilization, Volume 2