tint

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• /tɪnt/
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• homophone: tent (pin–pen merger)
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Contraction.

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.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: окраска (okraska) — slight coloring
• Bulgarian: оцветяване (ocvetjavane) — slight coloring
• Finnish: sävytys — slight coloring
• German: Tönung — slight coloring
• Portuguese: coloração — slight coloring
• Romanian: tentă — slight coloring
• Spanish: tinta — slight coloring
• Spanish: coloración — slight coloring
• Spanish: colorido — slight coloring
• Bulgarian: нюанс (njuans) — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Czech: nádech — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Finnish: häivähdys — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Spanish: matiz — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Spanish: tinte — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Spanish: coloración — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Spanish: colorido — pale or faint tinge of any color
• Bulgarian: колорит (kolorit) — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Czech: odstín — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Czech: tón — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Esperanto: nuanco — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Finnish: sävy — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Finnish: värisävy — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• German: Ton — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• German: Farbton — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Polish: odcień — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Spanish: tono — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Spanish: matiz — color considered with reference to other similar colors
• Bulgarian: оцветявам (ocvetjavam) — to shade, color
• Chinese Mandarin: 染色 (rǎnsè) — to shade, color
• Czech: přibarvit — to shade, color
• Czech: obarvit — to shade, color
• Czech: dodat nádech — to shade, color
• Finnish: sävyttää — to shade, color
• Finnish: värjätä — to shade, color
• Finnish: värjäytyä — to shade, color
• Finnish: sävyttyä — to shade, color
• German: tönen — to shade, color
• German: färben — to shade, color
• German: einfärben — to shade, color
• Portuguese: colorir — to shade, color
• Spanish: teñir — to shade, color
• Spanish: matizar — to shade, color
• Spanish: entintar — to shade, color
• Spanish: tintar — to shade, color