tint

See also tînt

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

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

Translations

slight coloring

• German: Tönung (de) f
• Spanish: tinta (es) f, coloración (es) f, colorido (es) m

pale or faint tinge of any color

• Spanish: matiz (es) m, tinte (es) m, coloración (es) f, colorido (es) m

color considered with reference to other similar colors

• German: Ton (de) m, Farbton (de) m
• Spanish: tono (es) m, matiz (es) m

Verb

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

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

Translations

to shade, color

• German: tönen (de), färben (de), einfärben (de)
• Spanish: teñir (es), colorir (es), matizar (es)

See also

• tinter

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

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

1. hue

Verb

tint

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

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Estonian

Noun

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

1. ink

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛ̃/ ,X-SAMPA: /tE~/

Verb

tint

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

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Livonian

Noun

tint

1. ink

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Scots

Verb

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