pinto
Meaning
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- (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
Concepts
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pin‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpinto/
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pinctus (“painted”), replacing Classical Latin pictus. Compare Sicilian pintu.
New
pintar
- (transitive) to paint (to apply paint to)
- (intransitive, transitive) to paint (to create an image with paints)
- (transitive) to draw (to depict with lines)
- (transitive) to depict, portray (as something)
- (intransitive) to look, to seem
- (colloquial) to have to do somewhere
- (reflexive) to make up one's face
- (reflexive) to put lipstick on oneself
- (reflexive) to color one's hair
- (Argentina, reflexive) to want
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