tinctura
See also: tinctură
English
Noun
tinctura (plural tincturae)
- (obsolete, medicine) tincture
Anagrams
- taciturn, urticant
Latin
Etymology
From tingō + -tūra.
Pronunciation
- tīnctūra: (Classical) IPA(key): /tiːnkˈtuː.ra/, [t̪iːŋkˈt̪uːrä]
- tīnctūra: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [t̪iŋkˈt̪uːrä]
- tīnctūrā: (Classical) IPA(key): /tiːnkˈtuː.raː/, [t̪iːŋkˈt̪uːräː]
- tīnctūrā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [t̪iŋkˈt̪uːrä]
Noun
tīnctūra f (genitive tīnctūrae); first declension
- 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.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tīnctūra | tīnctūrae |
| Genitive | tīnctūrae | tīnctūrārum |
| Dative | tīnctūrae | tīnctūrīs |
| Accusative | tīnctūram | tīnctūrās |
| Ablative | tīnctūrā | tīnctūrīs |
| Vocative | tīnctūra | tīnctūrae |
Descendants
- Asturian: tintura
- Catalan: tintura
- Corsican: tintura
- → Danish: tinktur
- English: tincture
- French: teinture
- Friulian: tenture
- Galician: tintura
- → German: Tinktur
- Italian: tintura
- Occitan: tenchura
- Piedmontese: tintura
- Portuguese: tintura
- Sicilian: tintura
- Spanish: tintura
- → Swedish: tinktur
- Venetian: tentura
Participle
tīnctūra
- inflection of tīnctūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
tīnctūrā
- ablative feminine singular of tīnctūrus
References
- “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
Portuguese
Noun
tinctura f (plural tincturas)
- Obsolete spelling of tintura (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
Romanian
Etymology
From tinctură.
Verb
a tinctura (third-person singular present tincturează, past participle tincturat) 1st conj.
- to dye
Conjugation
conjugation of tinctura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
| infinitive | a tinctura | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | tincturând | ||||||
| past participle | tincturat | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | tincturez | tincturezi | tincturează | tincturăm | tincturați | tincturează | |
| imperfect | tincturam | tincturai | tinctura | tincturam | tincturați | tincturau | |
| simple perfect | tincturai | tincturași | tinctură | tincturarăm | tincturarăți | tincturară | |
| pluperfect | tincturasem | tincturaseși | tincturase | tincturaserăm | tincturaserăți | tincturaseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să tincturez | să tincturezi | să tinctureze | să tincturăm | să tincturați | să tinctureze | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | tincturează | tincturați | |||||
| negative | nu tinctura | nu tincturați | |||||
Further reading
- tinctura in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)