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Pintado

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A fine cotton cloth; chintz. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable

    "a pintado quilt"

  2. 2
    A member of the tattooed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines. historical
  3. 3
    large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters wordnet
  4. 4
    The Cape petrel, Daption capense. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  5. 5
    A guinea fowl, especially as food. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).

Etymology 2

From Spanish pintado (“painted”).

Etymology 3

From Spanish pintado (“painted”).

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