name
Meaning 1
A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
pint
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Pronunciation
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/paɪnt/
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CMU ARPABET: P AY1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, UK
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noun
Meaning 3
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
one half quart.
16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 4
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
one half quart.
approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 5
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
1.696 liters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Hungary
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noun
Meaning 6
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
12 fluid ounces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: formerly medicine; now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers; formerly medicine; now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers
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noun
Meaning 7
A pint of milk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, metonymically
Examples
- Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
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noun
Meaning 8
A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, metonymically
Examples
- A couple of pints please, barman.
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noun
Meaning 9
a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: United States liquid unit
noun
Meaning 10
a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dry pint
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Broader terms: United States dry unit
noun
Meaning 11
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch Pint, a metonymic occupational surname for an official who controlled measures.
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.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пинта (pinta) — unit of volume for liquids
- Chinese Mandarin: 品脫 /品脱 (pǐntuō) — unit of volume for liquids
- Czech: pinta — unit of volume for liquids
- Finnish: pintti — unit of volume for liquids
- Finnish: puoli tuoppia — unit of volume for liquids
- Finnish: halstuoppi — unit of volume for liquids
- French: chopine — unit of volume for liquids
- Galician: pinta — unit of volume for liquids
- German: Pint — unit of volume for liquids
- Greek: χοεύς (choéfs) — unit of volume for liquids
- Greek: πίντα (pínta) — unit of volume for liquids
- Greek: όγδοο του γαλονιού (ógdoo tou galonioú) — unit of volume for liquids
- Ancient Greek: ξέστης (xéstēs) — unit of volume for liquids
- Irish: pionta — unit of volume for liquids
- Italian: pinta — unit of volume for liquids
- Japanese: パイント (painto) — unit of volume for liquids
- Latin: sextārius — unit of volume for liquids
- Latin: octāvius — unit of volume for liquids
- Macedonian: пи́нта (pínta) — unit of volume for liquids
- Māori: paina — unit of volume for liquids
- Norman: pînte — unit of volume for liquids
- Polish: pinta — unit of volume for liquids
- Polish: półkwarta — unit of volume for liquids
- Portuguese: quartilho — unit of volume for liquids
- Portuguese: pint — unit of volume for liquids
- Russian: пи́нта (pínta) — unit of volume for liquids
- Scottish Gaelic: pinnt — unit of volume for liquids
- Spanish: pinta — unit of volume for liquids
- Swahili: painti — unit of volume for liquids
- Swedish: pint — unit of volume for liquids
- Tagalog: pitis — unit of volume for liquids
- Welsh: peint — unit of volume for liquids
- Finnish: pintti — pint of milk
- Finnish: maitopullo — pint of milk
- French: chopine de lait — pint of milk
- Italian: pinta di latte — pint of milk
- Norman: pînte dé lait — pint of milk
- Welsh: peint — pint of milk
- Czech: půllitr — pint of beer
- Czech: pinta — pint of beer
- Finnish: tuoppi — pint of beer
- Finnish: oluttuoppi — pint of beer
- Finnish: tuopillinen — pint of beer
- French: pinte — pint of beer
- French: sérieux — pint of beer
- French: cannette — pint of beer
- Irish: pionta — pint of beer
- Macedonian: кри́гла (krígla) — pint of beer
- Macedonian: пи́нта (pínta) — pint of beer
- Russian: кру́жка (krúžka) — pint of beer
- Russian: пи́нта (pínta) — pint of beer
- Welsh: peint — pint of beer