pintado
Portuguese, noun/pĩˈta.du/
pintado is spelled P-I-N-T-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,840th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pintado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Cape petrel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of pintar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peixe de água doce, da ordem dos Siluriformes, ocorrendo exclusivamente na América do Sul; seu nome…”.
What does pintado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineCape petrel
- 2
Brazilmasculinespotted sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)
- 3
Brazilmasculinestreaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
- 4
masculineyellow-mandi (Pimelodus maculatus)
- 5
masculinewhale shark
- 6
masculineobsoletechintz
adjective
- 1
spotted
- 2
painted
- 3
colorful
- 4
with makeup
- 5
dyed
- 6
identical
- 7
Brazilwritten all over it
- 8
rareexcellent
verb
- 1
past participle of pintar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que levou tinta 2. colorido 3. matizado 4. representado por meio de pintura
noun: 1. peixe de água doce, da ordem dos Siluriformes, ocorrendo exclusivamente na América do Sul; seu nome científico é Pseudoplatystoma corruscans
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pintado
- pintados plural
- pintada feminine
- pintadas feminine plural
- mais pintado comparative
- o mais pintado superlative
- pintadíssimo superlative
- pintadinho diminutive
- pintadão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pintado?
- Brazil /pĩˈta.du/
- Portugal /pĩˈta.du/
- Portugal [pĩˈta.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pintado in Portuguese?
pintado appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).