tint
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Noun[edit]
tint (plural tints)
- A slight coloring.
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
- A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
tint (third-person singular simple present tints, present participle tinting, simple past and past participle tinted)
- (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[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Unknown(?)
Alternative forms[edit]
Contraction[edit]
tint
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tint c (plural tinten, diminutive tintje n)
Verb[edit]
tint
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tinten
- imperative of tinten
Estonian[edit]
Noun[edit]
tint (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Declension[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
tint
- third-person singular past historic of tenir
Livonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Apparently from German Tinte. See etymology at Latvian tinte.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tint
- ink
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- tint – tint – tinte
- ink – ink – ink
- tint – tint – tinte
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
Declension[edit]
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 |
Scots[edit]
Verb[edit]
tint
- simple past tense and past participle of tyne
- An efterhin he tint a lot o weicht - Afterwards he lost a lot of weight
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- English non-lemma forms
- English contractions
- Yorkshire English
- English colloquialisms
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch common-gender nouns
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Livonian terms borrowed from German
- Livonian terms derived from German
- Livonian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Livonian lemmas
- Livonian nouns
- Scots non-lemma forms
- Scots verb forms
- Scots verb simple past forms
- Scots past participles