tincture

English

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Etymology

Middle English, from Latin tinctura, from the verb tingo. Compare tint, taint.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈtɪŋk.tʃə/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋktʃə

Noun

tincture (plural tinctures)

1. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
2. A tint, or an added colour.
3. (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
4. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
5. (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
6. An essential characteristic.
   • 1924, ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 6.

     for the earlier thinkers had no tincture of dialectic

Translations

substance that dyes

• Finnish: väriaine (fi)

added colour

• Finnish: vivahde (fi), sävy (fi)

heraldry: colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms

• Finnish: tinktuuri (fi)

alcoholic extract used as medicine

• Czech: tinktura (cs) f
• Finnish: uute (fi)
• German: Tinktur (de) f
• Italian: alcolato (it) m
• Macedonian: тинктура (mk) (tinktúra) f

• Polish: nalewka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tintura (pt)
• Romanian: tinctură (ro) f
• Russian: настойка (ru) (nastójka) f 

small alcoholic drink

• Finnish: naukku (fi), napanteri (fi), terävät (fi) pl, hömpsy (fi)

essential characteristic

• Finnish: ominaispiirre (fi), peruspiirre (fi)

• Portuguese: ideia (pt) f

Verb

tincture (third-person singular simple present tinctures, present participle tincturing, simple past and past participle tinctured)

1. to stain or impregnate (something) with colour

Translations

to stain or impregnate with colour

• Finnish: sävyttää (fi), värjätä (fi)

Anagrams

• intercut

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Latin

Participle

tinctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of tinctūrus