Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pintado

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: pin-ta-do
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fine cotton cloth; chintz.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

The Cape petrel, Daption capense.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A guinea fowl, especially as food.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.

Countable; Uncountable

name

noun

A member of the tattooed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines.

Example Sentences

"a pintado quilt"
"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."

Etymology

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

Origin

Source language: Portuguese

Word Breakdown

Root: pintado

Usage

Inflected Forms

pintados (plural) pintadoes (plural)

Synonyms

cero kingfish scomberomorus regalis

Questions

What does pintado mean?: A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
Where does pintado come from?: It is traced to Portuguese.

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