portrait

• n. 肖像；描写；胸像
• n. （肖像画の）人名；（フランス語の）描写

中フランス語 portrait, portrait, depiction から、古フランス語 portraire, depiction, -t, 過去分詞格、語源は portray と同じ。

portrait

portrait: [16] Portrait was borrowed from French portrait, which originated as the past participle of the verb portraire ‘depict’ (source of English portray [14]). This was descended from Latin prōtrahere, a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth’ and trahere ‘draw’ (source of English tractor). This originally meant ‘draw out, reveal’, and also ‘lengthen’ (it has given English protract [16]), but in medieval Latin it came to be used for ‘depict’.
=> portray, protract, tractor

portrait (n.)

1560s, "a figure, drawn or painted," a back formation from portraiture or directly from Middle French portrait, from Old French portret (13c.), noun use of past participle of portraire "to paint, depict" (see portray). Especially of the head and face of a person.

1. Today his picture goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery.

今日、彼の絵が国立肖像美術館に展示されています。

2.He gives us a portrait of the real Gandhi,warts and all.

彼は私たちに本当のガンジーを描いてくれました。

3."Elizabeth R "，a TV portrait of the Queen，had record viewing figures.

女王に関するテレビ特集映画『エリザベス女王』が視聴率を記録した。

4.Lucian Freud has been asked to paint a portrait of the Queen.

ルシアン?フロイトは女王のために肖像画を描くように招待されている。

5.Alberg took the portrait down from the wall.

アルベルグは壁からその肖像画を取り外した。