pint

See also: Pint

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure), from Latin picta (painted), from Latin pingō (paint, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paɪnt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪnt

Noun

pint (plural pints)

  1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
    1. one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
      1. (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
      2. (US): one half quart
        1. 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
        2. approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
    2. (Hungary) 1.696 liters
    3. (medicine) 12 fluid ounces
  2. (Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.
    Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
  3. (UK, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
    A couple of pints please, barman.
    • 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films:
      Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.

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Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

Noun

pint f (plural pnat)

  1. daughter
  2. girl

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167

Danish

Verb

pint

  1. past participle of pine

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪnt
  • (file)

Noun

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

  1. (Belgium) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint).

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

Verb

pint

  1. inflection of pinnen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), q.v.

Noun

pint m (plural pints)

  1. (measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English pinte, from Old French point, puint, pont.

Noun

pint

  1. point

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 62
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