Morpheme
Pint
Type
free base
Denotation
painted, marked, spotted, unit of volume
Etymology
(1) Middle English pinte; Old French pinte; Latin picta, from pictus, from pingere; (2) American Spanish pinto; Spanish pinto; Latin pictus, from pingere
Evidence
cuckoopint, pint, pinto, pintoes, pintos, pints
Notes
“unit of volume” notion developed from marks on containers indicating smaller portions
pint and pinto are doublets
