tint

See also: tînt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt
• Homophone: tent (with pin-pen merger)

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Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.

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.

   Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
5. (automotive, informal) A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
   • 2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey (page 36)

     About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.

   • 2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots

     I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

Translations

slight coloring

• Finnish: sävytys (fi)
• German: Tönung (de) f
• Portuguese: coloração (pt) f

• Romanian: tentă (ro) f
• Spanish: tinta (es) f, coloración f, colorido (es) m

pale or faint tinge of any color

• Finnish: häivähdys (fi)

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

color considered with reference to other similar colors

• Finnish: sävy (fi), värisävy
• 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.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

Translations

to shade, color

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 染色 (zh)

• Finnish: sävyttää (fi) (transitive), värjätä (fi) (transitive), värjäytyä (fi) (intransitive), sävyttyä (intransitive)
• German: tönen (de), färben (de), einfärben (de)

• Portuguese: colorir (pt) m
• Spanish: teñir (es), colorir (es), matizar (es)

See also

• tinter

Etymology 2

Unknown(?)

Alternative forms

• int

Contraction

tint

1. (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't

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Dutch

Etymology

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

tint c (plural tinten, diminutive tintje n)

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 (genitive tindi, partitive tinti)

1. ink

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• tint in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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Verb

tint

1. third-person singular past historic of tenir

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Livonian

Etymology

Apparently from German Tinte. See etymology at Latvian tinte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tint/

Noun

tint

1. ink
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     tint – tint – tinte

     ink – ink – ink

Declension

Declension of tint (94)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	tint	tīntõd
genitive (genitīv)	tint	tīntõd
partitive (partitīv)	tintõ	tīntidi
dative (datīv)	tintõn	tīntõdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	tintkõks	tīntõdõks
illative (illatīv)	tintõ	tīntiž
inessive (inesīv)	tintsõ	tīntis
elative (elatīv)	tintstõ	tīntist

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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