different between pint vs sextary

English

Etymology

From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin ping? (“paint”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Noun

pint (plural pints)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to:
   1. one eighth of a gallon, specifically:
      1. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
      2. (US): one half quart
         1. 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
         2. approximately 18.62 fluid ounces [551 millilitres] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
   2. (Hungary) 1.696 liters
   3. (medicine) 12 fluid ounces
2. (Britain, metonymically) A pint of milk.

3. (Britain, metonymically) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
   • 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films

     Finn: You must have a terrible thirst on you tonight. I've never seen a man drink two pints at the same time.

Related terms

• half-pint
• imperial pint
• pinta
• pint glass
• pint pot
• pint-size, pint-sized
• US pint
• you can't fit a quart into a pint pot

Translations

See also

• gallon
• litre
• quart

Anagrams

• INTP, nipt

Danish

Verb

pint

1. past participle of pine

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

pint f (plural pinten, diminutive pintje n)

1. (Belgium) A glass of beer (usually 25 cl or 33cl, not an imperial pint).

Synonyms

• pils

Verb

pint

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pinnen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of pinnen

Anagrams

• nipt

Portuguese

Noun

pint m (plural pints)

1. pint (unit of volume for liquids)

   Synonym: quartilho

Yola

Alternative forms

• peint

Etymology

From Middle English poynte.

Noun

pint

1. point

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

Anglicized from Latin sextarius (“pint”)

Noun

sextary (plural sextaries)

1. An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
2. An Old English measure of liquid, usually wine or cider, perhaps containing 6 gallons.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172.

     The sextary seems to have contained 6 gallons, and is also used for cider and wine.

Related terms

• sextus
• six

Etymology 2

For sextonry.

Noun

sextary (plural sextaries)

1. (obsolete) A sacristy.