Get an English Tutor
English word pint comes from Latin pingo, Proto-Italic *piktos
pingo (Latin)
I decorate or embellish. I paint, tint or colour. I portray.
*piktos (Proto-Italic)
pictus (Latin)
picta (Latin)
*pincta (Vulgar Latin)
pinte (Old French)
pinte (Middle English)
pint (English)
(British) A pint of milk.. (medicine) 12 ounces. (metonym) A glass of beer, served by the pint.. A unit of volume, equivalent to ⅛ of a gallon or. A Hungarian pint, 1.696 liters. In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint) and. In the United States approximately.