stain
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blee, colour, stain”), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *stAy- (“stone”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French desteindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo.
Noun [edit]
stain (plural stains)
- A discoloured spot or area.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
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Verb [edit]
stain (third-person singular simple present stains, present participle staining, simple past and past participle stained)
- To discolour something
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- To coat a surface with a stain
- To treat a microscope specimen with a dye
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Romanization [edit]
stain
- See 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽
