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pinto

See also: Pinto, pin to, and pintó

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).

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Noun

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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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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

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Sarong pintô. (A door.)

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Borrowed from Malay pintu.

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

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pintô (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. (formal) door
    Synonyms: puwerta, tata

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pintô (plural pirinto, Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

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

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pintô (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

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

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Catalan

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pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

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

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

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Galician

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maragota (above) and pinto (below)

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

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pinto m (plural pintos)

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

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

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

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pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *pinctus, replacing Classical Latin pictus.

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

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

  1. past participle of pingere

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Japanese

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Romanization

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pinto

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ピント

Neapolitan

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pinto m (plural pinte)

  1. turkey
    Synonyms: gallarinio, galledinio

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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pinto m (plural pintos)

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

Etymology 2

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

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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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

Spanish

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpinto/ [ˈpĩn̪.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -into
  • Syllabification: pin‧to

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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

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  • → English: pinto

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pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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

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pintô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

  1. door
    Synonym: puwerta

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

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