tint

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus (dyed), past participle of verb tingō (I tinge).

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Noun [edit]

tint (plural tints)

  1. A slight coloring
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints
  4. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines

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Verb [edit]

tint (third-person singular simple present tints, present participle tinting, simple past and past participle tinted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to shade, to color

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Dutch [edit]

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tint ? (plural tinten, ??? please provide the diminutive!)

  1. hue

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tint

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tinten
  2. imperative of tinten

Estonian [edit]

Noun [edit]

tint (??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

  1. ink

Declension [edit]

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

French [edit]

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tint

  1. {{form of|third-person|Third-person]] singular [[past historic|tenir|nodot=1}}, (s/he) held

Livonian [edit]

Noun [edit]

tint

  1. ink

Scots [edit]

Verb [edit]

tint

  1. simple past tense and past participle of tyne
    An efterhin he tint a lot o weicht - Afterwards he lost a lot of weight