pinto

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See also: Pinto, pin to, and pintó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pinto (painted, mottled).

Pronunciation

Noun

pinto (plural pintos or pintoes)

  1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.
    • 1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10:
      Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto.

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Adjective

pinto (comparative more pinto, superlative most pinto)

  1. Pied, mottled.
    • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
      While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance.

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Bikol Central

Sarong pintô. (A door.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pintu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pinˈtoʔ/
  • Hyphenation: pin‧to

Noun

pintô (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. (formal) door
    Synonyms: puwerta, tata

Adjective

pintô (plural pirinto, Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. (informal) closed; locked
    Synonyms: serado, barat

Verb

pintô (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. (informal) to close; to lock
    Synonyms: sera, barat

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Catalan

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

pinto (accusative singular pinton, plural pintoj, accusative plural pintojn)

  1. peak, summit
  2. point (of a pointed star)

Derived terms

Galician

maragota (above) and pinto (below)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pinctus (painted), replacing Classical Latin pictus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

  1. a spotted variety of Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta), locally considered a different species

Adjective

pinto (feminine pinta, masculine plural pintos, feminine plural pintas)

  1. mottled, variegated
    Synonyms: apigarado, pégaro, pego

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

References

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pinctus, replacing Classical Latin pictus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpin.to/
  • Rhymes: -into
  • Hyphenation: pìn‧to

Participle

pinto (feminine pinta, masculine plural pinti, feminine plural pinte)

  1. past participle of pingere

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Japanese

Romanization

pinto

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ピント

Neapolitan

Noun

pinto m (plural pinte)

  1. turkey
    Synonyms: gallarinio, galledinio

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). Compare Spanish pito (cock, dick).

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

  1. (zoology) chick (young chicken)
    Synonyms: pito, pintainho
  2. (Brazil, vulgar) penis, especially small
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pint, q.v. Cognate with Spanish pinta.

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

  1. (measure) English or American pint, a unit of liquid volume equal to 473, 551, or 568 mL
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Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pinctus (painted), replacing Classical Latin pictus. Compare Sicilian pintu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpinto/
  • Rhymes: -into
  • Syllabification: pin‧to

Adjective

pinto (feminine pinta, masculine plural pintos, feminine plural pintas)

  1. (Latin America) spotted, pinto, mottled, blotchy
  2. (Caribbean) clever, cunning
  3. (Caribbean) drunk
  4. (Costa Rica) a meal served for lunch or dinner based on gallo pinto but also with a type of meat and possibly some extras

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: pinto

See also

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Brunei Malay pintu (cf. Bikol Central pinto).

Pronunciation

Noun

pintô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. door
    Synonym: puwerta

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pinto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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