Where does “Pintado” come from?
Pintado (English) comes from Portuguese pintado, from Portuguese pintar, from Old Portuguese pintar, from Vulgar Latin pinctare, from Latin pictāre, from Latin pingere, from Latin pingo, from Latin pango — to attach.
Pintado (English): A member of the tattooed indigenous people of...
Definitions
- A member of the tattooed indigenous people of...
Ancestry of “Pintado”, step by step
Pintado traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese pintado
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | pintado | spotted |
| 2 | Portuguese | pintar | to paint |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | pintar | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | pinctare | — |
| 5 | Latin | pictāre | paint |
| 6 | Latin | pingere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | pingo | I decorate or embellish; I paint, tint or colour;... |
| 8 | Latin | pango | I fasten, fix, set, especially drive, sink, force... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | pangō | to fasten, to fix |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂ǵ- | to attach |
via Spanish pintado
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | pintado | the tattoed indigenous people of Cebu during the... |