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.]

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Participle

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

1. past participle of pintar

Adjective

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

1. painted
2. spotted

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pintado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pintado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pintado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pintado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From pintar +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈta.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈta.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈta.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pĩˈta.du/ [pĩˈta.ðu]

• Hyphenation: pin‧ta‧do

Noun

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

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

• não querer ver nem pintado

Related terms

• despintado
• pintada
• sarapintado

Participle

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

1. past participle of pintar

Further reading

• “pintado”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “pintado”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “pintado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pintado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pintado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)

1. (history) 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10