pintado

pintado

See also: Pintado

English

Etymology

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

Noun

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.]

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Galician

Verb

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

1. masculine singular past participle of pintar

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Portuguese

Adjective

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

1. spotted
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Participle

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

1. past participle of pintar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)

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

Participle

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

1. past participle of pintar

Further reading

• “pintado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014