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pint

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English

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /paɪnt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪnt

Noun

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pint (plural pints)

  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
    1. one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
      1. (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
      2. (US): one half quart.
        1. 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
        2. approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
    2. (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
    3. (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
  2. (British, metonymically) A pint of milk.
    Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
  3. (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.

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Cypriot Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

Noun

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pint f (plural pnat)

  1. daughter
  2. girl

References

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  • 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

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Verb

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pint

  1. past participle of pine

Dutch

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pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

  1. (Belgium) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint).

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

Verb

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pint

  1. inflection of pinnen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Pinte and Bavarian Pint,[1] 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

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Noun

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pint (plural pintek)

  1. 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

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pint pintek
accusative pintet pinteket
dative pintnek pinteknek
instrumental pinttel pintekkel
causal-final pintért pintekért
translative pintté pintekké
terminative pintig pintekig
essive-formal pintként pintekként
essive-modal — —
inessive pintben pintekben
superessive pinten pinteken
adessive pintnél pinteknél
illative pintbe pintekbe
sublative pintre pintekre
allative pinthez pintekhez
elative pintből pintekből
delative pintről pintekről
ablative pinttől pintektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		pinté pinteké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		pintéi pintekéi
Possessive forms of pint
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pintem pintjeim
2nd person sing. pinted pintjeid
3rd person sing. pintje pintjei
1st person plural pintünk pintjeink
2nd person plural pintetek pintjeitek
3rd person plural pintjük pintjeik

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References

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  1. ^ pint in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From English pint, q.v.

Noun

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pint m (plural pints)

  1. (measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English peynt, from Old French point, puint, pont.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɪnt/
  • IPA(key): /pɛnt/ (as if pronounced /pɛntʲ/)

Noun

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pint

  1. point

References

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  • 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
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