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Pinto

Pinto

See also: pinto and pintó

English

Noun

Pinto (plural Pintos or Pintoes)

  1. A member of a mountain tribe of Native Americans living near Acapulco, Mexico.

Proper noun

Pinto

  1. A municipality in Santiago del Ester, Argentina
  2. A town in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region, Chile
  3. A town in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain

Spanish

Proper noun

Pinto m

  1. Pinto (places)
  2. A surname.

Derived terms

pinto

pinto

See also: Pinto and pintó

English

Noun

pinto (plural pintos or pintoes)

  1. (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

Translations

Adjective

pinto (comparative more pinto, superlative most pinto)

  1. Pied, mottled.
    • 1963, 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. — Thomas Pynchon, V.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

  • American Paint Horse

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Bikol Central

Noun

pinto

  1. door

Catalan

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of pintar

Esperanto

Noun

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

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

Derived terms


Galician

Verb

pinto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pintar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pictus, through a nasalized Vulgar Latin variant *pinctus.

Verb

pinto m (feminine singular pinta, masculine plural pinti, feminine plural pinte)

  1. past participle of pingere

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Neapolitan

Noun

pinto m (please add the plural)

  1. turkey

Synonyms

  • gallarinio
  • galledinio

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

pinto m (plural pintos)

  1. (zoology) chick: a young chicken
  2. (vulgar, Brazil) ****

Synonyms

Verb

pinto

  1. present indicative first-person singular of pintar.
    Eu pinto ― I paint.
    Pinto sempre à noite. ― I always paint at night.

Spanish

Etymology

From a Proto-Romance variation of Latin pictus, past participle of pingere (to paint).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpinto/

Adjective

pinto m (feminine singular 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

See also

Verb

pinto

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

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Tagalog

Noun

pinto

  1. door