pintar

From Vulgar Latin *pinctāre.

pintar

1. (transitive) to paint

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “pintar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/, [pĩn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

pintar (first-person singular indicative present pinto, past participle pintáu)

1. to paint

Inherited from Old Catalan pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pinˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pinˈtaɾ]

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pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pintí, past participle pintat)

1. to paint

• pintallavis
• pintaungles

• pintor
• pintura

• “pintar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pintar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

pintar m

1. policeman

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pintei, past participle pintado)

1. to paint
2. to be coloured
3. to seem, appear

• pintor
• pintura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pintar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pintar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pintar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pintar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pintar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pintar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pintar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Malay pintar, from Javanese ꦥꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦂ (pinter, “clever”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpin.tar/
• Rhymes: -tar
• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pintar (comparative lebih pintar, superlative paling pintar or terpintar, equative sepintar)

1. smart

   Synonym: pandai

   1. Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
   2. Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
   3. Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).

• “pintar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Attested in Wilkinson's (1926) An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary as Batavia.

• Hyphenation: pin‧tar
• Rhymes: -ar

pintar (Jawi spelling ڤينتر)

1. smart, genius

   Antonyms: bodoh, dungu

• “pintar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Old Occitan pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• IPA^(key): [pinˈta]

• Audio:

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pintar

1. to paint (apply paint to)
2. (reflexive, se pintar) to get drunk

• pénher
• pintor
• pintura

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintar, from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pintei, past participle pintado)

1. (transitive) to paint (apply paint to)
2. (intransitive) to paint (to practise the art of painting pictures)
3. (transitive, chiefly of hair) to dye

   Synonym: tingir

4. (transitive) to color (to give something color)

   Synonym: colorir

5. (intransitive) to color (to take on color)
6. (transitive) to makeup

   Synonym: maquilhar

7. (transitive) to describe in detail
8. (Brazil, colloquial, transitive) to appear, to happen, to come up

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pintar.

• “pintar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “pintar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “pintar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Borrowed from German Binder.

• IPA^(key): /pǐntaːr/
• Hyphenation: pin‧tar

pìntār m (Cyrillic spelling пѝнта̄р)

1. (regional) cooper

• “pintar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pinctāre < *pictāre, frequentative from Latin pingere.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtaɾ/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pin‧tar

pintar (first-person singular present pinto, first-person singular preterite pinté, past participle pintado)

1. (transitive) to paint (to apply paint to)
2. (transitive, intransitive) to paint (to create an image with paints)
3. (transitive) to draw (to depict with lines)

   Synonym: dibujar

4. (transitive) to depict, portray (as something)

   Ellas me pintaron como el malo.

   They painted me as the villain.

5. (intransitive, of a situation) to look, to seem

   La cosa no pinta bien.

   Things aren't looking good.

6. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to have to do somewhere

   Yo aquí no pinto nada.

   I don't fit in here at all.

   • 2021 December 7, Silvia Ayuso, “La violencia en el primer mitin del ultra Éric Zemmour enturbia la campaña electoral francesa”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero también dijo que no se siente “para nada responsable”, porque los activistas antirracistas “no pintaban nada ahí” y les acusó de ser unos “perros rastreadores de subvenciones” que solo buscan “provocar”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

7. (reflexive) to make up one's face
8. (reflexive) to put lipstick on oneself
9. (reflexive) to color one's hair
10. (reflexive, Argentina) to want

• “pintar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10