tinctura

tinctura (plural tincturae)

1. (obsolete, medicine) tincture

• taciturn, urticant

From tingō +‎ -tūra.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tinkˈtuː.ra/, [tɪŋkˈtuː.ra]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [tiŋkˈtuː.ra]

tinctūra f (genitive tinctūrae); 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.

First declension.

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

tinctūra

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

tinctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of tinctūrus

• 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

tinctura f (plural tincturas)

1. Superseded spelling of tintura. (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

From tinctură.

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

1. to dye