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/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnt
Noun
pint (plural pints)
- A unit of volume, equivalent to:
- one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
- (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
- (US): one half quart
- 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- (Hungary) 1.696 liters
- (medicine) 12 fluid ounces
- one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
- (Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.
- Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
unit of volume for liquids
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pint of milk
pint of beer
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Cypriot Arabic
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
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪnt
Audio (file)
Noun
Synonyms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)
Verb
pint
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English pinte, from Old French point, puint, pont.
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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