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).
         • 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:

           The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.

      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. (UK, metonymic) A pint of milk.

   Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.

3. (UK, metonymic) 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.

Derived terms

• cuckoopint
• dirty pint
• full pint
• half-pint
• hot pint
• imperial pint
• Philadelphia pint
• pinta
• pinter
• pint glass
• pintless
• pintman
• pint pot
• pint-size, pint-sized
• Scots pint
• Scottish pint
• suck-pint
• 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)

• Czech: pinta (cs) f
• Finnish: pintti (fi); puoli tuoppia, halstuoppi (fi) (closest equivalent in traditional Finnish units)
• 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 Greek: ξέστης m (xéstēs)

• Irish: pionta m
• Italian: pinta (it) f
• Japanese: パイント (ja) (painto)
• Latin: sextārius m, octāvius m
• Macedonian: пи́нта f (pínta)
• Māori: paina
• Norman: pînte f
• Polish: pinta (pl) f, półkwarta 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), maitopullo (fi)
• French: chopine de lait f
• Italian: pinta di latte f
• 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”)
• Irish: pionta m
• Macedonian: кри́гла f (krígla), пи́нта f (pínta)
• Russian: кру́жка (ru) f (krúžka) (пи́ва), пи́нта (ru) f (pínta)
• Welsh: peint m

See also

• gallon
• litre
• quart

Anagrams

• INTP, NIPT, nipt

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Semitic *bin-

Proto-Afroasiatic *-t

Proto-Semitic *-at-

Proto-Semitic *bint-

Arabic بِنْت (bint)

Cypriot Arabic pint

Inherited from Arabic بِنْت (bint).

Noun

pint f (plural pnat)

1. daughter
2. girl

References

• 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

Verb

pint

1. past participle of pine

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

Anagrams

• nipt

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pinte and Bavarian Pint, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpint]
• Hyphenation: pint
• Rhymes: -int

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• pintes
• pintnyi

Further reading

• pint in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pint(i). Related with English pintle.

Noun

pint m

1. (anatomy) penis
   • ca. 13th c., “Law of Lübeck”, in Schiller/Lübben, editor, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[2], volume 3, Bremen, published 1877, page 329:

     So war ienech man bi enes echten mannes wiue begrepen wert, de schal getoghet werden van deme wiue bi deme pinte dor de stat in den straten vp vnde neder.

     If any man be caught with a married man’s wife, the same woman shall pull him by his penis through the city up and down the streets [as a humiliation for both of them].

Portuguese

Etymology

From English pint, q.v.

Noun

pint m (plural pints)

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

Further reading

• “pint”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Yola

Alternative forms

• peint

Etymology

From Middle English poynt, from Old French point, puint, pont. Cognate with English p'int.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪnt/, /piːnt/

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