pintar

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pintar

1. (transitive) to paint

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “pintar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/, [pĩn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

pintar (first-person singular indicative present pinto, past participle pintáu)

1. to paint

From Old Catalan pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pinˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/

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pintar (first-person singular present pinto, past participle pintat)

1. to paint

• pintallavis
• pintaungles

• pintor
• pintura

• “pintar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pintar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

pintar m

1. policeman

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pintar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pintei, past participle pintado)

1. to paint
2. to be coloured
3. to seem, appear
4. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of pintar
5. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of pintar

• pintor
• pintura

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

pintar

1. bright, smart

   Antonym: bodoh

• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pintar (Jawi spelling ڤينتر‎)

1. smart, genius

   Antonyms: bodoh, dungu

• “pintar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Old Occitan pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus.

• IPA^(key): [pinˈta]

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pintar

1. to paint (apply paint to)
2. (reflexive, se pintar) to get drunk

• pénher
• pintor
• pintura

From Old Portuguese pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus.

• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pintei, past participle pintado)

1. (transitive) to paint (apply paint to)
2. inflection of pintar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pintar.

• pintável

From German Binder.

• IPA^(key): /pǐntaːr/
• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pìntār m (Cyrillic spelling пѝнта̄р)

1. (regional) cooper

• “pintar” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative of Latin pingō, through the past participle pictus. The nasal infix of the -n- may have come as a result of influence from the original verb.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pin‧tar

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pinté, past participle pintado)

1. (transitive) to paint (to apply paint to)
2. (transitive, intransitive) to paint (to create an image with paints)
3. (transitive) to draw (to depict with lines)

   Synonym: dibujar

4. (transitive) to depict, portray (as something)

   Ellas me pintaron como el malo.

   They painted me as the villain.

5. (intransitive, of a situation) to look, to seem

   La cosa no pinta bien.

   Things aren't looking good.

6. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to have to do somewhere

   Yo aquí no pinto nada.

   I don't fit in here at all.

   • 2021 December 7, Silvia Ayuso, “La violencia en el primer mitin del ultra Éric Zemmour enturbia la campaña electoral francesa”, in El País‎:

     Pero también dijo que no se siente “para nada responsable”, porque los activistas antirracistas “no pintaban nada ahí” y les acusó de ser unos “perros rastreadores de subvenciones” que solo buscan “provocar”.

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7. (reflexive) to make up one's face
8. (reflexive) to put lipstick on oneself
9. (reflexive) to color one's hair
10. (reflexive, Argentina) to want

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