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pintado

pintado noun: a fine cotton cloth; chintz.

Noun (1)

pintado (countable and uncountable, plural pintados or pintadoes)

  1. (archaic, historical) A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
    • a pintado quilt
  2. The Cape petrel, Daption capense.
    • 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.1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December
  3. A guinea fowl, especially as food.
  4. Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.

Proper noun capitalized: Pintado

Pintado (plural Pintados)

  1. A surname.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pintado

Pintado (plural Pintados or Pintadoes or Pintado)

  1. (historical) A member of the tattooed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines.

pintado meaning in Tamil

pintado in Tamil

கடற் பறவை வகைகினிக்கோழி

Forms of pintado

Noun
pluralpintados
pluralpintadoes
pluralPintados
pluralPintadoes
pluralPintado
Proper noun
pluralPintados

Origin of pintado

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

From Spanish pintado (“painted”).

Questions about pintado

What does pintado mean?
Pintado means a fine cotton cloth; chintz.
What is pintado in Tamil?
Pintado in Tamil is கடற் பறவை வகைகினிக்கோழி. See Pintado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pintado?
Pintado can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pintado?
The plural of pintado is pintados.

Words near pintado in the dictionary

  1. pinta
  2. pintable
  3. pintables
  4. pintada
  5. pintadas
  6. pintado
  7. pintadoes
  8. pintadoite
  9. pintados
  10. pintail
  11. pintail beetle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pintado (page history and authors); Pintado (page history and authors); pintado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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