pint

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.

• IPA^(key): /paɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

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. (Britain, 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.

• 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

• gallon
• litre
• quart

• INTP, NIPT, nipt

pint

1. past participle of pine

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

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

• pils

• → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

pint

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

• nipt

From English pint, q.v.

pint m (plural pints)

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

• peint

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

pint

1. point

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 62