pinto

See also: Pinto and pintó

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪntəʊ/

Noun

pinto (plural pintos or pintoes)

1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
   • 1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, "Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol", in Boy's Life, page 10.

     Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto.

Translations

horse with patchy coloration including white

• German: Scheck (de) m, Schecke (de) m, Schecke (de) f
• Irish: capall alabhreac m, capall breac m
• Navajo: łį́į́łkiizh
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• Portuguese: cavalo malhado m
• Volapük: vielajevod

Adjective

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.

Translations

pied, mottled

• German: gefleckt (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flekket

  Nynorsk: flekka

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• Portuguese: malhado (pt)
• Turkish: benekli (tr)

Derived terms

• pinto bean

See also

• American Paint Horse

Anagrams

• opt in, opt-in, pinot, piton, point, potin

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Bikol Central

Noun

pinto

1. door

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Catalan

Verb

pinto

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinto/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -into

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• kvinpinta
• mampinto
• montopinto
• suprapinto

 

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Galician

maragota (above) and pinto (below)

Etymology

From a Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin *pinctus) variation of Latin pictus, past participle of pingere (“to paint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinto̝/

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

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

Adjective

1. mottled, variegated

Verb

pinto

1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

References

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• “pinto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

Probably from a Vulgar Latin *pinctus, formed analogically as the past participle of *pingo, from Latin pango. See spinto.

Verb

1. past participle of pingere

Anagrams

• ponti

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Japanese

Romanization

pinto

1. Rōmaji transcription of ピント

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Neapolitan

Noun

pinto m (plural pinte)

1. turkey

   Synonyms: gallarinio, galledinio

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Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpĩ.tu/

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

1. (zoology) chick (young chicken)

   Synonym: pito

2. (vulgar, Brazil) penis

Verb

pinto

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   Eu pinto ― I paint

   Pinto sempre à noite. ― I always paint at night.

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Spanish

Etymology

From a Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin *pinctus) variation of Latin pictus, past participle of pingere (“to paint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinto/ [ˈpĩn̪.t̪o]

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• gallo pinto m

Related terms

• pintar
• pintor
• pintura

 

See also

• casado m

Verb

pinto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of pintar.

Anagrams

• pitón

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Tagalog

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pintô

1. door