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PINTA

Date "PINTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)

"PINTA" is a common misspelling or typo for: pieta, pint, pinto, pita.

 

Specialty Definition: PINTA

DomainDefinition

Health

An infectious disease of the skin caused by Treponema carateum that occurs only in the western hemisphere. Age of onset is between 10 and 20 years of age. This condition is characterized by marked changes in the skin color and is believed to be transmitted by direct person-to-person contact. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PINTA

Non-English Usage: "PINTA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Catalan (comb), Czech (pint), Esperanto (pointed, spiked), Finnish (exterior, plane, surface), Galician (appearance), Italian (pint), Papiamen (design, draw), Portuguese (dapple, dot, flick, pint, pt, speck, speckle, spot), Serbo-Croatian (pint), Spanish (marking, pint, pinta, spot).

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Commercial Usage: PINTA

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Ships of Christopher Columbus: Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta (Anatomy of the Ship) (reference)

  • Pannikin and Pinta (reference)

  • Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World (reference)

  • Handbook of endemic treponematoses : yaws, endemic syphilis, and pinta (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: PINTA

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Photo Album: PINTA

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One of the histopathologic characteristics of pinta, a nonvenereal treponemal disease contracted through direct contact with infectious lesions containing the bacterium Treponema carateum, is thickening of the epidermis. Credit: CDC.

This mature, 20 mos. old pinta lesion shows signs of hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, acanthosis, elongation of Rete Pegs and an inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis. The genus Treponema, contains the species pallidum, the cause of syphilis. Credit: CDC.

Spanish caravel Pinta. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pinta, Columbus caravel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pinta [i.e. Santa Maria]. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: PINTA
 

"Crispy duck.. nyam!" by Núria Fortuny
Commentary: "... Crispy duck, China town.. la veritat que massa bona pinta no feia."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: PINTA

"PINTA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "PINTA" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%12101,599
Noun (proper)25%4175,879
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: PINTA

The following table summarizes the usage of "PINTA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PintaLast name13054,909
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PINTA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pinta

27

nina pinta and santa maria

25

la pinta hotel

17

la pinta

11

mosca pinta

4

nina pinta

4

pinta volvo

3

maria nina picture pinta santa

3

hoteles la pinta

2

la pinta hotel ensenada

2

la pinta loreto

2

la la la maria niña pinta santa y

2

flower pinta

2

la la la niña pinta santa y

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PINTA

Language Translations for "PINTA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏نصف لتر (pint). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pùllitr mléka. (various references)

   

Danish

  

pinta (pinto), mal di pinta (pinto), mal de los pintos (pinto), carate (pinto). (various references)

   

French

  

pinte de lait, pinta (pinto), demi-litre de lait. (various references)

   

German

  

Pannus curateus (pinto), Puru-Puru (pinto), Piquite (pinto), Pinto (pinto), Pinta-Krankheit (pinto), Pinta (pinto), Boussarole (pinto), Cativi (pinto), Cuté (pinto), Gusarole (pinto), halber liter milch, Lota (pinto), Azul (pinto), Mancha (pinto), Vicara (pinto), Quiriqua (pinto), Mal de Pinto (pinto). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ברדת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fél liter tej. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

intapay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

pinta (marking, pint, spot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PINTA

Derivations

Words beginning with "PINTA": pintada, pintadas, pintado, pintadoes, pintados, pintail, pintails, pintano, pintanos, pintas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PINTA"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "PINTA" (pronounced pi"ntu)
4-i" n t uQuinta.
3-n t uinto, junta, magenta, Manta, placenta.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: PINTA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: inapt, paint, patin.

Words within the letters "a-i-n-p-t"

-1 letter: anti, nipa, pain, pant, pian, pina, pint, pita, tain.

-2 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, nap, nip, nit, pan, pat, pia, pin, pit, tan, tap, tin, tip.

-3 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, pa, pi, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-p-t"
 

+1 letter: catnip, hatpin, paints, painty, pandit, pantie, patina, patine, patins, pinata, pineta, pintas, pitman, plaint, pliant, ptisan, taipan, taping.

 

+2 letters: antipot, appoint, atropin, bepaint, cantrip, captain, caption, catnips, depaint, hatpins, impaint, implant, inaptly, maintop, nuptial, opuntia, paction, painted, painter, pandits, panties, pantile, panting, parting, pastina, pasting, patient, patinae, patinas, patined, patines, patting, pertain, petunia, pianist, picante, pinatas, pinnate, pintada, pintado, pintail, pintano, piquant, pissant, pitmans, plaints, platina, plating, prating, ptisans, ptomain, ptyalin, puritan, repaint, sandpit, sapient, spinate, spirant, taipans, tamping, tampion, tapping, timpana, timpani, timpano, tympani, unplait, utopian.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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