Pinta · wine
A small wine, beer and spirits measure. It is not an imperial pint; about 142.1 mL is used here.
Convert with this measure ↗Historical use
A small wine, beer and spirits measure. It is not an imperial pint; about 142.1 mL is used here.
Wine measures and oil or milk measures could share a name but have different capacities. Choose the context before converting.
Alternative names
pinet
Relationships between measures
Metric values are rounded individually; ratios may differ slightly through rounding.
Variations & cautions
Wine, beer and spirits; approximate historical value
A wine kartoċċ is about 1.137 L, whereas an oil or milk kartoċċ is about 1.279 L. Litres cannot be converted to kilograms without the product’s density.
A calculation can be mathematically precise while its historical equivalence remains approximate. Each variant here carries its context and sources. Displaying more decimal places does not make a rounded value more certain.
Worked conversions
- 1 × Pinta · wine≈ 0.1421 L
- 2 × Pinta · wine≈ 0.2842 L
- 10 × Pinta · wine≈ 1.421 L
Example: amount × factor = metric equivalent. Calculations use the full stored factor and round only for display.
The name is only half the story.
A wine kartoċċ is about 1.137 L, whereas an oil or milk kartoċċ is about 1.279 L. Litres cannot be converted to kilograms without the product’s density.
- Kartoċċ · wine
- ≈ 1.137 L
- Kartoċċ · oil / milk
- ≈ 1.279 L
Sources & method
- Malta Blue Book 1935 — Weights and Measures, section 19 ↗
Historical tables in the NSO archive. Digitised text contains errors; values here are qualified approximations.
- Unitajiet ta’ kejl Maltin — Wikipedija ↗
Starting point for names and meanings; not a sole authority.