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pinto

/ˈpɪntəʊ/US/ˈpɪntoʊ/

pinto noun: a horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.

Noun (1)

pinto (plural pintos or pintoes)

  1. (horse color) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.
    • Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto.1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10

Adjective

pinto (comparative more pinto, superlative most pinto)

  1. Pied, mottled.
    • While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance.1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pinto

Pinto (plural Pintos or Pintoes)

  1. A member of a mountain tribe of Native Americans living near Acapulco, Mexico.

Proper noun capitalized: Pinto

Pinto

  1. A municipality in Santiago del Ester, Argentina
  2. A town in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region, Chile.
  3. A town in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain

pinto meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pinto in Hindi

पिंटो

pinto in Tamil

பிண்டோ, பின்டோ, பின்ட்டோ

pinto in Marathi

पिंटो

pinto in Urdu

pinto
ابلق ablaq
More languagesFewer languages
pinto in Bengali
পিন্টো, পিনটো, পিণ্টো
pinto in Telugu
పింటో
pinto in Malayalam
പിന്റോ, പിൻടോ
pinto in Kannada
ಪಿಂಟೋ, ಪಿಂಟೊ
pinto in Punjabi
ਪਿੰਟੋ
pinto in Gujarati
પિંટો, પિન્ટો
pinto in Odia
ପିଣ୍ଟୋ, ପିନ୍ଟୋ
pinto in Nepali
पिन्टो, पिनटो

Forms of pinto

Noun
pluralpintos
pluralpintoes
pluralPintos
pluralPintoes
Adjective
comparativemore pinto
superlativemost pinto

Plural of pinto: pintos or pintoes

Origin of pinto

Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).

From Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”), from the white speckled pattern they used to apply to their faces.

Words formed from pinto

Phrases with pinto

Questions about pinto

What does pinto mean?
Pinto means a horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.
What is pinto in Hindi?
Pinto in Hindi is पिंटो. See Pinto meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pinto?
Pinto can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pinto?
Pinto is pronounced /ˈpɪntəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of pinto?
The plural of pinto is pintos.

Words near pinto in the dictionary

  1. pintle
  2. pintles
  3. pintless
  4. pintman
  5. pintmen
  6. pinto
  7. pinto bean
  8. pinto beans
  9. pintocytosis
  10. pintoes
  11. Pintor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinto (page history and authors); Pinto (page history and authors); pinto (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ابلق (Urdu) (page history and authors); pinto (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pinto (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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