PINTA


Meaning of PINTA in English

I. ˈpin-tə, -ˌtä noun

Etymology: American Spanish, from Spanish, spot, mark, from Vulgar Latin * pincta

Date: 1825

: a chronic skin disease that is endemic in tropical America, that occurs successively as an initial papule, a generalized eruption, and a patchy loss of pigment, and that is caused by a treponemal spirochete ( Treponema careteum ) morphologically indistinguishable from the causative agent of syphilis

II. ˈpīn-tə noun

Etymology: pint + -a (as in cuppa )

Date: 1959

British : a pint of milk

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