tinctus

tinctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of tingō.

Participle

tīnctus (feminine tīncta, neuter tīnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. impregnated with; dipped in
2. treated
3. coloured, tinged

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tīnctus	tīncta	tīnctum		tīnctī	tīnctae	tīncta
Genitive	tīnctī	tīnctae	tīnctī		tīnctōrum	tīnctārum	tīnctōrum
Dative	tīnctō		tīnctō		tīnctīs
Accusative	tīnctum	tīnctam	tīnctum		tīnctōs	tīnctās	tīncta
Ablative	tīnctō	tīnctā	tīnctō		tīnctīs
Vocative	tīncte	tīncta	tīnctum		tīnctī	tīnctae	tīncta

Derived terms

• tinctūrus
• tinctūra

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: tinto
  • Sicilian: tintu
• Padanian:
  • Venetian: tento
• Gallo-Romance:
  • French: teint
  • Catalan: tint
  • Occitan: tench
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: tintu
  • Galician: tinto
  • Portuguese: tinto
  • Spanish: tinto (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Dutch: tinct (obsolete); tint
  • → English: tinct (obsolete); English: tint (influenced by French teinte)
  • → Middle Low German: tint
  • → Plautdietsch: Tint
  • → Estonian: tint

From tincta f:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: tinta
• Padanian:
  • Venetian: tenta
• Gallo-Romance:
  • French: teinte
  • Catalan: tinta
  • Occitan: tencha, tincha, tinta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: tinta
  • Old Portuguese: tinta, tĩta
    • Galician: tinta
    • Portuguese: tinta (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: tinta (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Hungarian: tinta
  • → Old High German: tinkta
    • Middle High German: tincte, tinte
      • German: Tinte (see there for further descendants)
      • Hunsrik: Tint
      • Luxembourgish: Tënt
      • Yiddish: טינט‎ (tint)

References

• “tinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tinctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse