tinctura

See also: tinctură

English

Noun

tinctura (plural tincturae)

1. (obsolete, medicine) tincture

Anagrams

• taciturn, urticant

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Latin

Etymology

From tingō +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• tīnctūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiːnkˈtuː.ra/, [t̪iːŋkˈt̪uːrä]
• tīnctūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [t̪iŋkˈt̪uːrä]
• tīnctūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiːnkˈtuː.raː/, [t̪iːŋkˈt̪uːräː]
• tīnctūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [t̪iŋkˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

tīnctūra f (genitive tīnctūrae); first declension

1. a dyeing
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.119:

     Reddetur et per se cyanos, accommodato paulo ante et iaspidi nomine a colore caeruleo. optima Scythica, dein Cypria, postremo Aegyptia. adulteratur maxime tinctura, idque in gloria est regum Aegypti; adscribitur et qui primus tinxit. dividitur autem et haec in mares feminasque. inest ei aliquando et aureus pulvis, non qualis sappiris; in his enim aurum punctis conlucet.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tīnctūra	tīnctūrae
Genitive	tīnctūrae	tīnctūrārum
Dative	tīnctūrae	tīnctūrīs
Accusative	tīnctūram	tīnctūrās
Ablative	tīnctūrā	tīnctūrīs
Vocative	tīnctūra	tīnctūrae

Descendants

• English: tincture
• French: teinture
• Italian: tintura
• Portuguese: tintura
• Spanish: tintura

Participle

(deprecated template usage) tīnctūra

1. nominative feminine singular of tīnctūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of tīnctūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of tīnctūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of tīnctūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of tīnctūrus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) tīnctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of tīnctūrus

References

• “tinctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tinctura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Noun

tinctura f (plural s)

1. Template:pt-obsolete-silent-letter-1911

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Romanian

Etymology

From tinctură.

Verb

a tinctura (third-person singular present tinctură, past participle tincturat) 1st conj.

1. to dye

Conjugation

    conjugation of tinctura (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a tinctura
gerund			tincturând
past participle			tincturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	tinctur	tincturi	tinctură	tincturăm	tincturați	tinctură
	imperfect	tincturam	tincturai	tinctura	tincturam	tincturați	tincturau
	simple perfect	tincturai	tincturași	tinctură	tincturarăm	tincturarăți	tincturară
	pluperfect	tincturasem	tincturaseși	tincturase	tincturaserăm	tincturaserăți	tincturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să tinctur	să tincturi	să tincture	să tincturăm	să tincturați	să tincture
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		tinctură			tincturați
	negative		nu tinctura			nu tincturați