Pinto Definition

pĭntō
pintoes, pintos
noun
A pinto horse or pony.
Webster's New World
A horse with patchy markings of white and another color.
American Heritage

Pinto bean.

Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Marked with patches of white and another, usually dark, color; piebald or skewbald.
Webster's New World
Mottled; pied.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Pinto

Noun

Singular:
pinto
Plural:
pintoes, pintos

Origin of Pinto

  • Spanish piebald, spotted from Vulgar Latin pīnctus past participle of Latin pingere to paint peig- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Spanish, painted, mottled, from the white speckled pattern they used to apply to their faces.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled").

    From Wiktionary

Pinto Sentence Examples

  • While Mendes Pinto and his book are typically Portuguese of that age, the Historia tragicomaritima, sometimes designated the prose epic of saudade, is equally characteristic of the race of seamen which produced it.

  • Julio Cesar Machado and Fialho de Almeida made their mark by many humorous publications, and, in the domain of pure literary criticism, mention must be made of Antonio Pedro Lopes de Mendonga, Rebello da Silva, Dr Joaquim de Vasconcellos, Mme Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Silva Pinto, the favourite disciple of Castello Branco, and of Luciano Cordeiro, founder of the Lisbon Geographical Society, whose able monograph, Soror Marianna, vindicated the authenticity of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun and showed Marianna Alcoforado to be their authoress.

  • How I crossed Africa, by Major Serpa Pinto (English trans., London, 1881), contains a graphic account of the visit paid to the falls by the Portuguese explorer.

  • During his term of office as president (1876 to 1881) Pinto had to deal first with a severe financial crisis, and then to conduct the struggle with Peru and Bolivia, in which he displayed great coolness of judgment and devotion to duty.

  • While pinto beans are traditional, you can use red or black kidney beans instead, or a combination.

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