# pint
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paɪnt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪnt

### Noun

pint (plural pints)
* A unit of volume, equivalent to:
** one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
*** (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
*** (US): one half quart.
**** 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
**** approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
** (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
** (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
* (British, metonymically) A pint of milk.
    Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* cuckoopint
* dirty pint
* full pint
* half-pint
* hot pint
* imperial pint
* pinta
* pint glass
* pint pot
* pint-size, pint-sized
* Scots pint
* Scottish pint
* suck-pint
* US pint
* you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

#### Translations
### See also

* gallon
* litre
* quart

### Anagrams

* INTP, NIPT, nipt

## Cypriot Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

### Noun

pint f (plural pnat)
* daughter
* girl

### References

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

## Danish
### Verb

pint
* past participle of pine

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪnt
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)
* (Belgium) a glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint)

#### Synonyms

* pils

#### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

### Verb

pint
* inflection of pinnen:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Anagrams

* nipt

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Pinte and Bavarian Pint, 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpint]
* Hyphenation: pint
* Rhymes: -int

### Noun

pint (plural pintek)
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* pintes
* pintnyi

### References

* ↑ pint in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* 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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From English pint, q.v.

### Noun

pint m (plural pints)
* (measure) Alternative form of pinto, an English or American pint

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* peint

### Etymology

From Middle English pont, from Old French point, puint, pont. Cognate with English p'int.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪnt/, /pint/

### Noun

pint
* point

### References

* 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