PINTA

I. 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. noun Etymology: pint + -a (as in cuppa) Date: 1959 a pint of milk