sketch
sketch
subs.
Picture: P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, P. ζωγράφημα, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Account, description: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
Outline: P. and V. σκιαγραφία, ἡ ; outling.
subs.
Picture: P. and V. γρᾰφή, ἡ, γράμμᾰ, τό, P. ζωγράφημα, τό, V. ἄ̆γαλμα, τό, εἰκών, ἡ.
Account, description: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ.
Outline: P. and V. σκιαγραφία, ἡ ; outling.
sketch
v. trans.
Describe: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι; see describe.
Describe in outline: P. σκιαγραφεῖν.
v. trans.
Describe: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι; see describe.
Describe in outline: P. σκιαγραφεῖν.
SKETCH
s. adumbratio (whether with pencil etc. or in words): forma alicujus rei adumbrata (Cic.). Kraft gives delineatio; brevis descriptio. Ichnographia in Vitr. only. To give a mere sketch of anything formam ac speciem alicujus rei adumbrare: to give a mere sketch of history tantummodo summas attingere (opposed to res explicare; Vid: Brem. Nep. Pelop. 1 1).
s. adumbratio (whether with pencil etc. or in words): forma alicujus rei adumbrata (Cic.). Kraft gives delineatio; brevis descriptio. Ichnographia in Vitr. only. To give a mere sketch of anything formam ac speciem alicujus rei adumbrare: to give a mere sketch of history tantummodo summas attingere (opposed to res explicare; Vid: Brem. Nep. Pelop. 1 1).
v. formam alicujus rei lineis describere: speciem or imaginem alicujus rei lineis deformare: imaginem alicujus rei delineare (PROP.): adumbrare aliquid (PROP. of a sketch partly shaded; Vid: Freund sub voc.; also IMPROP. of graving tools or words): partes alicujus rei disponere (to arrange the separate component parts): delineare aliquid (to draw an outline of it): brevirer paucis describere aliquid: to merely sketch anything [Vid: “to give a mere sketch”]: to sketch figures etc. in outline extrema corporum facere or pingere et desinentis picturae modum includere (of mere outlines Plin. 35 10 36): to sketch out delineare designare (to draw in outline; designare also figuratively verbis); primis velut lineis designare (in a speech Quint. 4 2 120); describere (to describe in outline); adumbrare (to represent with a due mixture of light and shade; figuratively to represent in due manner dicendo): to sketch out a work *rationem operis describere: to sketch out a speech primas velut lineas orationis ducere; orationis partes disponere: to sketch out a plan of anything rationem alicujus rei describere or designare (e.g. belli).
sketch (subs.):
1. ădumbrātio: Lit.: Vitr. 1, 2, 2 (where perspective is said to be "frontis et laterum abscedentium a."). Fig.: an attempt and s., conatus atque a., Cic. Or. 29, 103.
2. descriptio (a marking out): s.s of the volutes, d. volutarum, Vitr. 3, 5, 8 (3, 13): Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138: v.PLAN . Fig.: a brief plain s., brevis et aperta d., id. Inv. 2, 18, 55.
3. dēformātio: a s., d. grammatica, Vitr. 3, praef., 4: v.DRAUGHT .
4. expr. by forma, lineamenta, etc.: v.OUTLINE , PLAN , DIAGRAM . (N.B.--Informatio in Vitr. 4, 6, 6, is dub.: in formationibus, al.) Phr.: a mere s. of glory, adumbrata imago gloriae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3.
1. ădumbrātio: Lit.: Vitr. 1, 2, 2 (where perspective is said to be "frontis et laterum abscedentium a."). Fig.: an attempt and s., conatus atque a., Cic. Or. 29, 103.
2. descriptio (a marking out): s.s of the volutes, d. volutarum, Vitr. 3, 5, 8 (3, 13): Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138: v.
3. dēformātio: a s., d. grammatica, Vitr. 3, praef., 4: v.
4. expr. by forma, lineamenta, etc.: v.
sketch (v.):
1. ădumbro, 1 (to s. in black and white, to outline; opp. to exprimere): Lit.: Val. Max. 8, 11, 7: Quint. Fig.: to s. the misfortunes of heroes in a speech, heroum casus a. dicendo, Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 194: to s. the outlines and features of eloquence, eloquentiae speciem et formam a., id. Or. 14, 43.
2. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw): to s. figures in the dust, d. formas in pulvere, Liv. 25, 31. Fig.: to s. out a subject, rem breviter d., Cic. Inv. 1, 8, 11: v.DRAW , DELINEATE .
3. dēlīneo, 1: to s. a figure on the wall with charcoal, carbone imaginem in pariete d., Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 89.
4. dēformo, 1: to s. and colour plans for a building, exemplaribus pictis speciem operis d., Vitr. 1, 1, 4.
5. dēsigno, 1: v.TRACE , PLAN . Phr.: to s. the outline of a man, umbram hominis lineis circumducere, Plin. 35, 3, 5 (where to shade the s. is "spargere lineas intus"); so, lineas extremas umbrae circumscribere, Quint. 10, 2, 7: she s.'d the shadow of his face thrown by the lamp on the wall, umbram ex facie ejus ad lucernam in pariete lineis circumscripsit, id. 35, 12, 43.
1. ădumbro, 1 (to s. in black and white, to outline; opp. to exprimere): Lit.: Val. Max. 8, 11, 7: Quint. Fig.: to s. the misfortunes of heroes in a speech, heroum casus a. dicendo, Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 194: to s. the outlines and features of eloquence, eloquentiae speciem et formam a., id. Or. 14, 43.
2. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw): to s. figures in the dust, d. formas in pulvere, Liv. 25, 31. Fig.: to s. out a subject, rem breviter d., Cic. Inv. 1, 8, 11: v.
3. dēlīneo, 1: to s. a figure on the wall with charcoal, carbone imaginem in pariete d., Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 89.
4. dēformo, 1: to s. and colour plans for a building, exemplaribus pictis speciem operis d., Vitr. 1, 1, 4.
5. dēsigno, 1: v.