pintura

From Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra.

pintura f (plural pintures)

1. paint (substance)

• pintar
• pintor

Inherited from Old Catalan pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pinˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pinˈtu.ɾa]

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pintura f (plural pintures)

1. painting (act of applying paint)
2. painting (artwork)
3. paint (substance)

• pintar
• pintor

• “pintura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pintura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• bintula

Borrowed from Spanish pintura.

• IPA^(key): /pintoːlaʔ/

pintura

1. A painting.
   • 17C: Chimalpahin, Descent of the Kings of Culhuacan and Tenochtitlan

     ynin tlahtolli ytech tlaquixtilli yn bintula quimocahuilitiuh Don Alonso ximenez culhuacan chane

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra.

pintura f (plural pinturas)

1. a painting
2. painting (activity)

• pintar
• pintor

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra. Sense 4 possibly a semantic loan from Cantonese 畫 / 画 (compare Chinese 上畫 / 上画 (shànghuà, “(of a movie) to release on screen”, literally “up painting”)), and both senses 3 and 4 may have been influenced by English picture.

pintura

1. print, picture, painting

   Ondi vas já vai gafinhâ estunga pintura?

   Where did you uncover this painting?

2. picture on playing cards
3. photo, photograph

   tirâ pintura ― to take a photo

4. film, movie

   olâ pintura ― to see a film

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “pintura”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 515

From Old Occitan pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra.

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pintura f (plural pinturas)

1. paint
2. painting

• pénher
• pintar
• pintor

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra.

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• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pin‧tu‧ra

pintura f (plural pinturas)

1. (countable) a painting

   Synonym: quadro

2. (uncountable) painting

• pintar
• pintor

• “pintura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pintura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra, from pictus with influence from the present stem pingō.

• IPA^(key): /pinˈtuɾa/ [pĩn̪ˈt̪u.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: pin‧tu‧ra

pintura f (plural pinturas)

1. painting
2. paint (colorant substance)
   • 2024 April 29, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Rolls-Royce amplía su fábrica para construir coches más despacio”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Sencillamente, cada vez hay más ricos en el mundo y tienen más dinero para gastar en cosas como coches con polvo de diamante en la pintura y equipamiento de picnic integrado en el maletero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. paintwork

• “pintura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish pintura (“paint”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pinˈtuɾa/ [pɪn̪ˈt̪uː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: pin‧tu‧ra

pintura (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓᜇ)

1. paint
2. painting; painted picture

• bantura

Borrowed from Spanish pintura (“paint”).

pintura f (Tifinagh spelling ⵒⵉⵏⵜⵓⵔⴰ)

1. paint

   Synonym: ssbaɣet