pintado

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese pintado (literally painted).

Noun

pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)

  1. (now rare, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
    a pintado quilt
  2. The Cape petrel, Daption capense.
    • 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December:
      We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.
  3. A guinea fowl, especially as food.
  4. Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.

Galician

Pronunciation

Participle

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Adjective

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. painted
  2. spotted

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From pintar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: pin‧ta‧do

Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)

  1. Cape petrel
  2. (Brazil) spotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)
  3. (Brazil) streaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
  4. (Rio Grande do Sul) yellow-mandi (Pimelodus maculatus)
  5. (Azores) whale shark
  6. (obsolete) chintz
    Synonym: chita

Adjective

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas, comparable, comparative mais pintado, superlative o mais pintado or pintadíssimo, diminutive pintadinho, augmentative pintadão)

  1. spotted
  2. painted
  3. colorful
  4. with makeup
  5. (chiefly hair) dyed
  6. (figurative) identical
  7. (Brazil, figurative) written all over it
  8. (figurative, rare) excellent
  9. (Bahia) insolent

Derived terms

Participle

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pinˈtado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: pin‧ta‧do

Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)

  1. (history) the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines

Participle

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Further reading