peint

(Past participle): from Vulgar Latin *pinctus, replacing Classical Latin pictus.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃/

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peint (feminine peinte, masculine plural peints, feminine plural peintes)

1. past participle of peindre

peint

1. third-person singular present indicative of peindre

• “peint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pinte

Borrowed from Middle English pinte (“pint”).

• IPA^(key): /pei̯nt/

peint m (plural peintiau)

1. a pint (one eighth of a gallon)
2. (metonymic) a pint of beer
3. (metonymic) a pint of milk

• peintiaid (“pintful”)

• galwyn (“gallon”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “peint”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

peint

1. alternative form of pint

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62