PINTO
What does "PINTO" mean?
A horse with patches of white and another color, or a mottled bean of the same name.
Meanings
- A horse or pony marked with large irregular patches of white and dark coloring. She rode a brown-and-white pinto across the ranch.
- A medium-sized speckled bean, beige with brown mottling, that turns uniform when cooked. He simmered a pot of pinto beans with onion and cumin.
- Mottled or marked with two colors, especially in patches. The pinto pattern made each horse easy to recognize.
Did you know?
- A pinto horse and a pinto bean share a name for the same reason: 'pinto' means 'painted' in Spanish, and both wear two-tone, splotchy markings.
Word origin
From American Spanish 'pinto' (painted, spotted), from Spanish 'pintar' (to paint), ultimately from Latin 'pingere' (to paint); the same Latin root underlies 'picture' and 'pigment'.
Remember it
PINTO = think 'paint-oh' - the splotchy markings on the horse and the bean.
A little poem
Brown spilled over white,
the pony wears the desert-
two colors, one will.
haiku
Wordplay
- The cowboy ordered his horse and his dinner the same way: a pinto, please, and make it well-marked.
What it teaches
Some things are named for how they look, not what they are - read the markings, then look deeper.
Quick facts
What does PINTO mean?
A horse with patches of white and another color, or a mottled bean of the same name.
Is PINTO a valid word?
Yes — PINTO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PINTO?
PINTO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PINTO come from?
From American Spanish 'pinto' (painted, spotted), from Spanish 'pintar' (to paint), ultimately from Latin 'pingere' (to paint); the same Latin root underlies 'picture' and 'pigment'.
What can PINTO teach us?
Some things are named for how they look, not what they are - read the markings, then look deeper.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.