Where does “pinte” come from?

pinte (Middle English) comes from Old French pinte, from Vulgar Latin pincta, from Latin Pictus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

pinte (Middle English): pint

Definitions

  1. pint

Ancestry of “pinte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpinte—
2Vulgar Latinpinctaa mark used to indicate a level of quantity...
3LatinPictusa Pict, a resident of early Scotland
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “pinte”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin Pictus →