tint

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tinctus, past participle of tingō (“I wet”).

Noun

tint m (plural tints)

1. dyeing
2. dye(stuff)
3. dyeworks

Synonyms

• (act of dyeing): tenyida, tenyiment, tintura
• (result of dyeing): tenyit
• (dye): tintura
• (dyeworks): tintoreria

Derived terms

• tintar

Related terms

• tenyir
• tintorer
• tintori

Further reading

• “tint”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tint” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tint” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

tint c (plural tinten, diminutive tintje n)

1. hue

Verb

tint

1. inflection of tinten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Estonian

Etymology 1

From German Tinte or Middle Low German tint, both ultimately from Latin tīnctus.

Noun

tint (genitive tindi, partitive tinti)

1. ink

Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German stint. Compare German Stint.

Noun

tint (genitive tindi, partitive tinti)

1. smelt (a fish from the Osmeridae family; most commonly, Osmerus eperlanus)

Declension

Further reading

• “tint”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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Verb

tint

1. third-person singular past historic of tenir

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

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