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English
Etymology
From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.
Pronunciation
Noun
pint (plural pints)
- A unit of volume, equivalent to:
- one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
- (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
- (US): one half quart.
- 16 US fluid ounces for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- approximately 33.6 cubic inches for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
- (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832:The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;
1928, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 58:As a good illustration, this work shows that it is possible to fill 12-ounce pints for carry-out trade. This leads the ice cream manufacturers to feel that a large part of the trouble encountered comes from merchandising.
1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194:[…] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day. The story of Coleridge's opium addiction is further confused by his habit of referring to laudanum as a stimulant.
1973, Ted Kosoy, A Guide for Travellers in Canada:... 12 - ounce pints of beer or ale may be substituted . Visitors under 16 cannot legally bring in tobacco . The liquor allowance does not apply to minors below the age limit prevailing in the province you are entering . Apart from these […]
1975, American Metric Journal, numbers 3-4, page 36:Forget quarts and 12-ounce "pints". Given the amounts of Pepsi and 7-up , 3.2 beer and California wine, tequila and sour mash we consume, it won't be long before we learn our capacities in this new language.
2012 June 25, Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Thick and Creamy Shakes You Can Make At Home: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:4 medium scoops coffee ice cream (about 1 pint/12 ounces/340 grams), softened until just melty at the edges
- (British, metonymically) A pint of milk.
Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
- (UK, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
A couple of pints please, barman.
1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films:Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.
Derived terms
Translations
unit of volume for liquids
See also
Anagrams
Cypriot Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic بِنْت (bint).
Noun
pint f (plural pnat)
- daughter
- girl
References
- Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167
Danish
Verb
pint
- past participle of pine
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)
- (Belgium) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint).
Synonyms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)
Verb
pint
- inflection of pinnen:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (archaic) plural imperative
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Pinte and Bavarian Pint, from French pinte, from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“mark used to indicate level on vessels”), from Latin pictus (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“to paint”). Compare English pint.
Pronunciation
Noun
pint (plural pintek)
- any of various old units of volume, often equivalent to about 1.4–1.6 litres
- Egy pint két iccével egyenlő. ― A pint is equal to two icce.
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- pint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Portuguese
Etymology
From English pint, q.v.
Noun
pint m (plural pints)
- (measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint
Yola
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English poynte, from Old French point, puint, pont.
Pronunciation
Noun
pint
- point
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62