pintado
See also: Pintado
English
Etymology
From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).
Noun
pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)
- (now rare, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz. [from 16th c.]
- a pintado quilt
- The Cape petrel, Daption capense. [from 17th c.]
- 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December:
- We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.
- 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December:
- A guinea fowl, especially as food. [from 17th c.]
- Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis. [from 19th c.]
Galician
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈtado/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: pin‧ta‧do
Noun
pintado m (plural pintados)
- (historical) the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines
Participle
pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
- past participle of pintar
Further reading
- “pintado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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