PINTO

Pinto

Pinto is a common Portuguese surname, sometimes occurring in Spanish and Italian languages. Some Indians, specially people whose family originated from Goa, also bear this name. It can be also found among the Sephardi Jews descendants of the Jews expelled from Portugal that settled in Arab countries and the Netherlands. In England, the spelling was sometimes changed to Pinter. "Pinto" is a Spanish word literally meaning 'painted' and also 'dappled' or 'spotted'.

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pinto

Noun

  1. A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

Adjective

  1. Pied, mottled.
    • 1963, 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. — Thomas Pynchon, V.


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