# pintado
## English
### Etymology

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

### Noun

pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)
* (now rare, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz. [from 16th c.]
    a pintado quilt
* 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.
* A guinea fowl, especially as food. [from 17th c.]
* Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis. [from 19th c.]

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pinˈtado/ [pin̪ˈt̪a.ð̞ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ado

### Participle

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
* past participle of pintar

### Adjective

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
* painted
* 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: /pĩˈta.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /pĩˈta.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /pĩˈta.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pĩˈta.du/ [pĩˈta.ðu]
* Hyphenation: pin‧ta‧do

### Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)
* Cape petrel
* (Brazil) spotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)
* (Brazil) streaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
* (Rio Grande do Sul) yellow-mandi (Pimelodus maculatus)
* (Azores) whale shark
* (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)
* spotted
* painted
* colorful
* with makeup
* (chiefly hair) dyed
* (figurative) identical
* (Brazil, figurative) written all over it
* (figurative, rare) excellent
* (Bahia) insolent

#### Derived terms

* não querer ver nem pintado

#### Related terms

* despintado
* pintada
* sarapintado

### Participle

pintado (feminine pintada, masculine plural pintados, feminine plural pintadas)
* 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: /pinˈtado/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -ado
* Syllabification: pin‧ta‧do

### Noun

pintado m (plural pintados)
* (history) the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines

### Participle

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