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pinto meaning

EN[ˈpɪntəʊ]
WPinto
  • Pinto means "painted" or something similar in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and also serves as a surname for people with links to those ethnicities.
  • In English, the word most commonly refers to either:
  • The Pinto horse, famous because it looks "painted", or
  • The Ford Pinto, named after the horse.
  • It may also be referring to:
EN Pinto

    Definition of pinto in English Dictionary

  • NounPLpintosPLpintoes
    1. (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore pintoSUPmost pinto
      1. Pied, mottled.
        1. 1963, While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance. — Thomas Pynchon, V.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Nouns
          • Countable nouns
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        1. en pintos
        2. fr pintons
        3. en pintoes
        4. en pinto bean
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of pinto for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "pinto" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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