pinta

From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa.

• enPR: pīntʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnt.ə/

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pinta (plural pintas)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A pint of milk.

Borrowed from Spanish pinta.

• enPR: pĭnʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɪn.tə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪntə

pinta (uncountable)

1. A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.

Borrowed from Spanish.

• enPR: pēnʹtə, pĭnʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn.tə/, /ˈpɪn.tə/
• Rhymes: -ɪntə

pinta (uncountable)

1. (Chicano, slang) prison

• Atnip, NAITP, Paint, inapt, inpat, nip at, paint, patin, tap in, tap-in

pinta f (plural pintes)

1. appearance; look
2. similarity
3. drop; smidgen

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.ta/

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From Latin pecten, pectinem.

pinta f (plural pintes)

1. comb

• pentinar

From the feminine of Vulgar Latin pinctus, from Latin pictus, past participle of pingō (“I paint”).

pinta f (plural pintes)

1. appearance, look

   Synonym: aspecte

From French pinte, from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“mark used to indicate level on vessels”), feminine form of Vulgar Latin *pinctus.

pinta f (plural pintes)

1. pint

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pinta

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pintar
2. second-person singular imperative form of pintar

• “pinta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pinta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “pinta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pinta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

pinta f

1. pint (unit of volume)

• pinta in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pinta in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

pinto (“peak”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpinta]
• Rhymes: -inta
• Hyphenation: pin‧ta

pinta (accusative singular pintan, plural pintaj, accusative plural pintajn)

1. peaked
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 17, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     Post tiu ĉi malviva, neenterigita kontinento sin etendas ree maro sabla, sur kiu tie ĉi kaj tie oni vidas pintajn konusojn, kiuj leviĝas iafoje ĝis unuetaĝa alto.

     After this dead, unburied continent, stretches again the sea of sand, whereon here and there can be seen peaked cones, sometimes rising a storey high.

From Proto-Finnic *pinta (compare Estonian pind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spindaz (compare Old English spind, Dutch spint (spinthout)). Alternatively from Proto-Finno-Permic *pinta, if related to Erzya пондакш (pondakš), пондаз (pondaz), Moksha понда (ponda), Udmurt педло (pedlo).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpintɑ/, [ˈpin̪t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -intɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pin‧ta

pinta

1. surface

• pinttyä
• pinnoittaa

• napit, panit, patin, tapin, tipan

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• Homophones: pintas, pintât

pinta

1. third-person singular past historic of pinter

• IPA^(key): [ˈpintɐ]

pinta

1. feminine singular of pinto

pinta f (plural pintas)

1. spot (a round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color)

   Synonyms: marxa, penca

2. salamander (a round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color)

   Synonyms: píntega, salamántiga

pinta

1. third-person singular present indicative of pintar
2. second-person singular imperative of pintar

• “pinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pinta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pinta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pinta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Malay pinta.

• IPA^(key): /pintaʔ/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Hyphenation: pin‧ta

pinta

1. request

pinta

1. to ask
2. to invite

From Malay pinta.

pinta (first-person possessive pintaku, second-person possessive pintamu, third-person possessive pintanya)

1. request

pinta

1. to ask

From Proto-Finnic *pinta. Cognates include Finnish pinta and Estonian pind.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpintɑ/, [ˈpind]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpintɑ/, [ˈpind̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -intɑ
• Hyphenation: pin‧ta

pinta

1. surface

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 409

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.ta/
• Rhymes: -inta
• Hyphenation: pìn‧ta

pinta f (plural pinte)

1. pint

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.ta/

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• Rhymes: -inta
• Syllabification: pin‧ta

pinta f

1. pint (unit of measurement)
2. pinta (disease endemic to Central America)

• pinta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pinta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Deverbal from pintar (“to paint”).

pinta f (plural pintas)

1. naevus

   Synonyms: nevo, mancha, sinal

2. a small spot, dot or stain

   Synonyms: mancha, sinal

3. suit (card game category)

   Synonym: naipe

4. appearance, look

   Synonyms: aparência, cara, aspecto, fisionomia

• (appearance):
  • boa pinta (“good-looking”, adjective)
  • pinta-brava

• Japanese: ピン (pin)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pinta

1. inflection of pintar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Originally from French pinte (“French pint”), although now used for English pint.

pinta f (countable and uncountable, plural pintas)

1. (measure) Synonym of pinto, an English or American unit of liquid volume

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinta/ [ˈpĩn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -inta
• Syllabification: pin‧ta

pinta f (plural pintas)

1. look, appearance

   Synonym: aspecto

   tener buena pinta ― to look good (literally, “to have good appearance”)

2. small spot, dot or stain
3. (US Southwest, Northern Mexico, slang) jail[1]
4. (Dominican Republic, Colombia, slang) being well-dressed or well-put

• irse de pinta
• tener buena pinta

pinta

1. feminine singular of pinto

pinta

1. inflection of pintar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From pint +‎ -a, from English pint, q.v. Cognate with Portuguese pinto.

pinta f (plural pintas)

1. English or American pint, a unit of liquid volume equal to 473, 551, or 568 mL

• pint, pinto

• onza (1/16 pinta), gill (1/4 pinta), cuarto (2 pintas), galón (8 pintas), barril (252 pintas)

• “pinta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish pintar.

• Hyphenation: pin‧ta
• IPA^(key): /pinˈta/, [pɪnˈta]

pintá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. act of painting

Borrowed from Spanish pinta.

• Hyphenation: pin‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈpinta/, [ˈpin.tɐ]

pinta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. pint

• “pinta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

pinta

1. paint

   Synonym: sāt