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pintado¹

Where it comes from

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

noun pintados · pintadoes

  1. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable A fine cotton cloth; chintz. a pintado quilt
  2. countable, uncountable 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.
  3. countable, uncountable A guinea fowl, especially as food.
  4. countable, uncountable Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.

Pintado²

Where it comes from

From Spanish pintado (“painted”).

proper noun Pintados

  1. A surname.

noun Pintados · Pintadoes · Pintado

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

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"pintado." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pintado. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pintado. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pintado

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"pintado." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pintado.

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@misc{pintado_2026,
  title = {pintado},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pintado},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}