pintado

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English

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Etymology

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From Portuguese pintado (literally painted).

Noun

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pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)

  1. (now rare, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz. [from 16th c.]
    a pintado quilt
  2. The Cape petrel, Daption capense. [from 17th c.]
    • 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December:
      We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.
  3. A guinea fowl, especially as food. [from 17th c.]
  4. Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis. [from 19th c.]

Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pinˈtado/ [pin̪ˈt̪a.ð̞ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ado

Participle

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pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Adjective

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pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. painted
  2. spotted

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From pintar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pin‧ta‧do

Noun

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pintado m (plural pintados)

  1. Cape petrel
  2. (Brazil) spotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)
  3. (Brazil) streaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
  4. (Rio Grande do Sul) yellow-mandi (Pimelodus maculatus)
  5. (Azores) whale shark
  6. (obsolete) chintz
    Synonym: chita

Adjective

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pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas, comparable, comparative mais pintado, superlative o mais pintado or pintadíssimo, diminutive pintadinho, augmentative pintadão)

  1. spotted
  2. painted
  3. colorful
  4. with makeup
  5. (chiefly hair) dyed
  6. (figurative) identical
  7. (Brazil, figurative) written all over it
  8. (figurative, rare) excellent
  9. (Bahia) insolent

Derived terms

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Participle

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pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Further reading

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pinˈtado/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: pin‧ta‧do

Noun

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pintado m (plural pintados)

  1. (history) the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines

Participle

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pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)

  1. past participle of pintar

Further reading

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