pint

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A unit for measuring liquid, equal to about half a litre.

   The recipe needs a pint of milk.

2. 2
   noun

   A glass of beer of this size.

   Let's go to the pub and grab a pint.

From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.

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