Etymograph

English

Pinto

Pinto comes from Spanish pinto ‘painted, mottled’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyḱ-‘to mark, paint’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*pinéḱtireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pingōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpingō‘to paint’
  5. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEpictusas *pinctus‘painted’reconstructed
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentpinto‘painted, mottled’
  7. EnglishtodayPinto

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyḱ-‘to mark, paint’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*pinéḱtireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pingōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpingō‘to paint’
  5. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEpictusas *pinctus‘painted’reconstructed
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentpinto‘painted, mottled’
  7. EnglishtodayPinto

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- ‘to mark, paint’

fish, file, feud, piscina, 27 more

through Latin pingō ‘to paint’

picture, paint, depiction, depict, pigment, pictorial, pimento, 9 more

Today it means

noun A member of a mountain tribe of Native Americans living near Acapulco, Mexico.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- / Pinto