pint

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English

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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^(key): /paɪnt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnt

Noun

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).
      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. (British, 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.

Derived terms

• cuckoopint
• dirty pint
• full pint
• half-pint
• hot pint
• imperial pint
• pinta
• pinter
• pint glass
• pintless
• pintman
• 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

unit of volume for liquids

Bulgarian: пинта f (pinta) Chinese: Mandarin: 品脫 / 品脱 (zh) (pǐntuō) Czech: pinta (cs) f Finnish: pintti (fi); puoli tuoppia, halstuoppi (fi) (closest equivalent in traditional Finnish units) French: chopine (fr) f Galician: pinta (gl) f German: Pint (de) n Greek: χοεύς m (choéfs), πίντα (el) f (pínta), όγδοο του γαλονιού n (ógdoo tou galonioú) Ancient: ξέστης m (xéstēs) Irish: pionta m Italian: pinta (it) f Japanese: パイント (ja) (painto) Latin: sextārius m, octāvius m Macedonian: пи́нта f (pínta) Maori: paina Norman: pînte f Polish: pinta (pl) f, półkwarta f Portuguese: quartilho m, pint m Russian: пи́нта (ru) f (pínta) Scottish Gaelic: pinnt m Spanish: pinta (es) f Swahili: painti Swedish: pint (sv) c Tagalog: pitis Welsh: peint m

pint of milk

Finnish: pintti (fi), maitopullo (fi) French: chopine de lait f Italian: pinta di latte f Norman: pînte dé lait f Welsh: peint m

pint of beer

Czech: půllitr (cs) m, pinta (cs) f Finnish: tuoppi (fi), oluttuoppi (fi), tuopillinen (fi) French: pinte (fr) f, sérieux (fr) m, (Switzerland) cannette (fr) f Greek: μισόλιτρο n (misólitro, literally “half a litre”) Irish: pionta m Macedonian: кри́гла f (krígla), пи́нта f (pínta) Russian: кру́жка (ru) f (krúžka) (пи́ва), пи́нта (ru) f (pínta) Welsh: peint m

See also

• gallon
• litre
• quart

Anagrams

• INTP, NIPT, nipt

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بِنْت (bint).

Noun

pint f (plural pnat)

1. daughter
2. 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

1. past participle of pine

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

• Audio:

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Noun

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

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

Synonyms

• pils

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: pinchi (from the diminutive)

Verb

pint

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

Anagrams

• nipt