a member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde in the first to the fourth centuries ad: later applied chiefly to the inhabitants of NE Scotland. Throughout Roman times the Picts carried out border raids
Word origin
Old English Peohtas; later forms from Late Latin Pictī painted men, from pingere to paint
Pict in American English
(pɪkt)
noun
a member of an ancient people of Great Britain that was driven into Scotland by the Britons and the Romans