pint

See also: Pint

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /paɪnt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

Noun

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 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
   2. (Hungary) 1.696 liters
   3. (medicine) 12 fluid ounces
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.

Related terms

• half-pint
• imperial pint
• pinta
• pint glass
• pint pot
• pint-size, pint-sized
• US pint
• you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

Translations

unit of volume for liquids

• Bulgarian: пинта f (pinta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 品脫／品脱 (zh) (pǐntuō), 品脱 (zh) (pǐntuō)

• Czech: pinta (cs) f
• Finnish: pintti (fi)
• French: chopine (fr) f
• Galician: pinta (gl) f
• German: Pint (de) n
• Greek: χοεύς m (choéfs), πίντα (el) f (pínta), όγδοο του γαλονιού n (ógdoo tou galonioú)

  Ancient: ξέστης m (xéstēs)

• Irish: pionta m
• Italian: pinta (it) f
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• Japanese: パイント (painto)
• Latin: sextārius m, octāvius m
• Macedonian: пинта f (pinta)
• Maori: paina
• Norman: pînte f
• Portuguese: quartilho m, pint m
• Russian: пи́нта (ru) f (pínta)
• Scottish Gaelic: pinnt m
• Spanish: pinta (es) f
• Swahili: painti
• Swedish: pint (sv) c
• Tagalog: pitis
• Welsh: peint m

pint of milk

• Finnish: pintti (fi)
• French: chopine de lait f
• Italian: pinta di latte f
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• Norman: pînte dé lait f
• Welsh: peint m

pint of beer

• Czech: půllitr (cs) m, pinta (cs) f
• Finnish: tuoppi (fi), oluttuoppi (fi), tuopillinen (fi)
• French: pinte (fr) f, sérieux (fr) m, (Switzerland) cannette (fr) f
• Greek: μισόλιτρο n (misólitro, literally “half a litre”)
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• Irish: pionta m
• Macedonian: кригла f (krigla), пинта f (pinta)
• Russian: кру́жка (ru) f (krúžka) (пи́ва), пи́нта (ru) f (pínta)
• Welsh: peint m

See also

• gallon
• litre
• quart

Anagrams

• INTP, NIPT, nipt

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Danish

Verb

pint

1. past participle of pine

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

• Audio:

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Noun

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

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

Synonyms

• pils

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

Verb

pint

1. (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of pinnen
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of pinnen

Anagrams

• nipt

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Portuguese

Noun

pint m (plural pints)

1. pint (unit of volume for liquids)

   Synonym: quartilho

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Alternative forms

• peint

Etymology

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

Noun

pint

1. point

References

• 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