tint

• IPA^(key): /tɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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.

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.

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:

     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.

• tinter

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• int

tint

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

tint c (plural tinten, diminutive tintje n)

1. hue

tint

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tinten
2. imperative of tinten

tint (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. ink

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• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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tint

1. third-person singular past historic of tenir

Apparently from German Tinte. See etymology at Latvian tinte.

• IPA^(key): /tint/

tint

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

     tint – tint – tinte

     ink – ink – ink

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