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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.

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).
        * 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
        The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
      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. (UK, metonymic) A pint of milk.
    Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
  3. (UK, metonymic) 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.

unit of volume for liquids

pint of milk

pint of beer

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

pint f (plural pnat)

  1. daughter
  2. girl

pint

  1. past participle of pine

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

  1. (Belgium) a glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint)

pint

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

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.

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.
  1. ^ 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, 2011–2025.

From Proto-West Germanic *pint(i). Related with English pintle.

pint m

  1. (anatomy) penis
    • ca. 13th c., “Law of Lübeck”, in Schiller/Lübben, editor, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch‎[2], volume 3, Bremen, published 1877, page 329:
      So war ienech man bi enes echten mannes wiue begrepen wert, de schal getoghet werden van deme wiue bi deme pinte dor de stat in den straten vp vnde neder.
      If any man be caught with a married man’s wife, the same woman shall pull him by his penis through the city up and down the streets [as a humiliation for both of them].

From English pint, q.v.

pint m (plural pints)

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

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

pint

  1. point