tins

See also: tîns

English

Noun

tins

1. plural of tin

Verb

tins

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tin

Anagrams

• Inst., NIST, NTIS, Tsin, inst, inst., ints, isn't, nits, snit

Franco-Provençal

Pronoun

tins

1. masculine plural of tin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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• Homophones: tain, teins, teint, thym, tint, tînt

Verb

tins

1. first/second-person singular past historic of tenir

Noun

tins m

1. plural of tin

Nigerian Pidgin

Noun

tins

1. plural of tin

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tensus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tins/

Verb

tins

1. past participle of tinde

Adjective

tins m or n (feminine singular tinsă, masculine plural tinși, feminine/neuter plural tinse)

1. extended, stretched
2. smooth, flat, even

Declension

Declension of tins

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	tins		tinsă	tinși	tinse
	definite	tinsul		tinsa	tinșii	tinsele
genitive- dative	indefinite	tins		tinse	tinși	tinse
	definite	tinsului		tinsei	tinșilor	tinselor

Related terms

• întins

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tens, tans, temps, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

Noun

tins m

1. times (inevitable passing of events)
2. weather.

West Frisian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪns/

Noun

tins c (plural tinzen, diminutive tinsje)

1. (countable) thought

Further reading

• “tins (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011