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). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.

• IPA^(key): /paɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

pint (plural pints)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
   1. one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
      1. (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
      2. (US): one half quart.
         1. 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
         2. approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
   2. (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
   3. (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
      • 1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832:

        The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;

      • 1928, Ice Cream Trade Journal, page 58:

        As a good illustration, this work shows that it is possible to fill 12-ounce pints for carry-out trade. This leads the ice cream manufacturers to feel that a large part of the trouble encountered comes from merchandising.

      • 1968, Alethea Hayter, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, Univ of California Press, page 194:

        […] a 12-ounce pint of laudanum every five days, or about 1,000 drops a day. The story of Coleridge's opium addiction is further confused by his habit of referring to laudanum as a stimulant.

      • 1973, Ted Kosoy, A Guide for Travellers in Canada:

        ... 12 - ounce pints of beer or ale may be substituted . Visitors under 16 cannot legally bring in tobacco . The liquor allowance does not apply to minors below the age limit prevailing in the province you are entering . Apart from these […]

      • 1975, American Metric Journal, numbers 3-4, page 36:

        Forget quarts and 12-ounce "pints". Given the amounts of Pepsi and 7-up , 3.2 beer and California wine, tequila and sour mash we consume, it won't be long before we learn our capacities in this new language.

      • 2012 June 25, Adam Ried, Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes: 100 Thick and Creamy Shakes You Can Make At Home: 100 Classic and Contemporary Recipes, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

        4 medium scoops coffee ice cream (about 1 pint/12 ounces/340 grams), softened until just melty at the edges

2. (British, metonymically) A pint of milk.

   Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.

3. (UK, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

   A couple of pints please, barman.

   • 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.

• gallon
• litre
• quart

• INTP, NIPT, nipt

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

pint f (plural pnat)

1. daughter
2. girl

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167

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

• → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

pint

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

• nipt

Borrowed from German Pinte and Bavarian Pint,[1] from French pinte, from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“mark used to indicate level on vessels”), from Latin pictus (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“to paint”). Compare English pint.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpint]
• Hyphenation: pint
• Rhymes: -int

pint (plural pintek)

1. any of various old units of volume, often equivalent to about 1.4–1.6 litres

   Egy pint két iccével egyenlő. ― A pint is equal to two icce.

• pint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From English pint, q.v.

pint m (plural pints)

1. (measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint

• peint

From Middle English poynte, from Old French point, puint, pont.

• IPA^(key): /piːnt/

pint

1. point

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62