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Pinto
Pinto
English
Noun
Pinto (plural Pintos or Pintoes)
- A member of a mountain tribe of Native Americans living near Acapulco, Mexico.
Proper noun
Pinto
- A municipality in Santiago del Ester, Argentina
- A town in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region, Chile
- A town in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain
Spanish
Proper noun
Pinto m
Derived terms
pinto
pinto
English
Noun
pinto (plural pintos or pintoes)
- (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
Translations
horse with patchy coloration including white
Adjective
pinto (comparative more pinto, superlative most pinto)
- 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
pied, mottled
Derived terms
See also
- American Paint Horse
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Esperanto
Noun
pinto (accusative singular pinton, plural pintoj, accusative plural pintojn)
Derived terms
- kvinpinta
- mampinto
- montopinto
- suprapinto
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pictus, through a nasalized Vulgar Latin variant *pinctus.
Verb
pinto m (feminine singular pinta, masculine plural pinti, feminine plural pinte)
- past participle of pingere
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpĩtu/
Noun
pinto m (plural pintos)
Synonyms
- (chick): pito
Verb
pinto
- 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)
- (Latin America) spotted, pinto, mottled, blotchy
- (Caribbean) clever, cunning
- (Caribbean) drunk
- (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
- casado m
Verb
pinto