pintakasi

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Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog pintakasi, from Malay pinta +‎ Tagalog kasi.

Noun

pintakasi

1. patron saint; intercessor

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

• pintacasi (Súlat Bacúlud, Ámung Sámson)

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay pinta +‎ kasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪntəˈkasi/, [pɪn.təˈxäː.si]
• Hyphenation: pin‧ta‧ka‧si

Noun

pintakási

1. patron saint; intercessor

Derived terms

• mamintakasi
• pamintakasi
• pemintakasinan
• pinintakasinan

 

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pintacasi, pintacaſi — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

From Malay pinta (“to beg; to ask”) +‎ Malay kasih (“love; affection”), or the second element from loaned Tagalog kasi (“grace; protection”) instead.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pintaˈkasi/ [pɪn.tɐˈxaː.sɪ]
• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: pin‧ta‧ka‧si

Noun

pintakasi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜃᜐᜒ)

1. mutual aid (especially in certain rural tasks)

   Synonym: bayanihan

2. cockfighting on the occasion of fiestas
3. patron saint; religious intercessor

   Synonyms: patron, tagapamagitan

Derived terms

• ipamintakasi
• magpintakasi
• magpintakasinan
• mamintakasi
• pagpintakasinan
• pagpintakasinin
• pintakasinan
• pintakasinin

 

Related terms

• kasi

 

Further reading

• “pintakasi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 6: “Abogado) Pintacaſi (pp) delante de Dios, y de los hombres”
  • page 370: “Interçeſor) Pintacaſi (pp) delante de alguno”
• Otto Dempwolff (1934-1938) Vergleichende Lautlehre des austronesischen Südseesprachen [Comparative Phonology of Austronesian vocabularies] (in German), Berlin: Reimer