pint

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).

• IPA^(key): /paɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

pint (plural pints)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
   1. ⅛ of a gallon
   2. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
   3. (US) approximately
      1. 473 millilitres for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
      2. 551 millilitres for dry goods (a US dry pint).
   4. (Hungary) 1.696 liters
   5. (medicine) 12 ounces
2. (Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.

   Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.

3. (metonymically) A glass of beer, served by the pint.
   • 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.

• half-pint
• imperial pint
• pinta
• pint glass
• pint pot
• pint-size, pint-sized
• US pint
• you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

• gallon
• litre
• quart

• INTP, nipt

pint

1. past participle of pine

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

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

• pils

pint

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

• nipt

pint m (plural pints)

1. pint (unit of volume for liquids)

• quartilho