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English
Etymology
From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).
Noun
pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)
- (now rare, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
- a pintado quilt
- 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.
- A guinea fowl, especially as food.
- 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)
- past participle of pintar
Adjective
pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
- painted
- spotted
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pintado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pintado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pintado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pintado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From pintar + -ado.
Pronunciation
Noun
pintado m (plural pintados)
- Cape petrel
- (Brazil) spotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)
- (Brazil) streaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
- (Rio Grande do Sul) yellow-mandi (Pimelodus maculatus)
- (Azores) whale shark
- (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)
- spotted
- painted
- colorful
- with makeup
- (chiefly hair) dyed
- (figurative) identical
- (Brazil, figurative) written all over it
- (figurative, rare) excellent
- (Bahia) insolent
Derived terms
Participle
pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
- past participle of pintar
Further reading
- “pintado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “pintado”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “pintado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “pintado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “pintado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈtado/
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: pin‧ta‧do
Noun
pintado m (plural pintados)
- (history) the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines
Participle
pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
- past participle of pintar
Further reading