• IPA^(key):/tɪnt/
• Rhymes:-ɪnt
• Homophone:tent(pin–pen merger)

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Alteration of earliertinct, influenced byFrenchteinte(“tint”), fromLatintinctus(“dyed”), past participle of verbtingō(“tinge”).Doublet oftent(“kind of red wine”). Cognate withDutchtint,Estoniantint,Frenchteinte,GermanTinte,Hungariantinta,Italiantinta,LuxembourgishTintin,Portuguesetinta, andSpanishtinta.

tint (pluraltints)

1. A slightcoloring.
2. Apale orfaint tinge of anycolor; especially, a variation of a color obtained by addingwhite (contrastshade)
3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

   Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are differenttints.

4. A shaded effect inengraving, produced by thejuxtaposition of many fineparallel lines.
5. (automotive,informal) Avehiclewindow that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
   • 2010, Rochelle Magee,No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page36:

     About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom withtints 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 withtints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

tint (third-person singular simple presenttints,present participletinting,simple past and past participletinted)

1. (transitive,intransitive)  Toshade, tocolor.
   • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 1, inThe 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 beentinted 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)itisnot; itisn't;'tisn't;it'sn't

FromLatintinctus, past participle oftingō(“I wet”).

tint m (pluraltints)

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

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

• tintar

• tenyir
• tintorer
• tintori

• “tint”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “tint” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tint” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Alteration of earliertinct, fromLatintinctus(“dyed”), past participle of verbtingō(“tinge”).

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• Rhymes:-ɪnt

tint c (pluraltinten,diminutivetintje n)

1. hue

tint

1. inflection oftinten:
   1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key):/ˈtin(ʲ)t/,[ˈtʲin(ʲ)tˑ]

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• Rhymes:-int,-inʲt
• Hyphenation:tint

FromMiddle Low Germanstint. First attested in 1660.^[1]

tint (genitivetindi,partitivetinti)

1. smelt(a small, slender freshwater fish with a dark back and silvery sides and belly;Osmerus)

   Synonym:tindikala

   Hyponyms:meritint,vikertint,kääbustint,Peipsi tint

• tindikala

• meritint (Osmerus eperlanus),vikertint (Osmerus mordax),kääbustint (Osmerus spectrum)

FromGermanTinte, ultimately fromMedieval Latinaquatīncta(“colored water, liquid”), fromtīnctus, perfect passive participle oftingere(“to moisten; to dye, to colo(u)r”). First attested in 1869.^[2]

Replacedplakk, an earlier borrowing fromMiddle Low Germanblack(“(black) ink”). A native neologismmustlik (frommust(“black”); compareRussianчерни́ла(černíla,“ink”), fromчёрный(čórnyj,“black”)) has also been attested, but has not reached widespread use. In the 1715 translation of the New Testament, the sense was translated asraamatu must (literally,“book black”).^[3][4]

tint (genitivetindi,partitivetinti)

1. ink(an aqueous dye solution used for writing (with a quill), printing etc.)[from 19th c.]

   sininetint ―blueink

   tindiga kirjutatud tekst ―text written inink

   Kiri on veeltindist märg. ―The text is still wet withink.

   • 1964,August Alle, “Ruunat Pegasus [Gelded Pegasus]”, in Debora Vaarandi, editor, compiled by Ralf Parve,Väike luuleraamat (poetry), Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus,→ISBN, page99:

     Olümbi harjal armetumat looma / ei elutsend kui Eesti Pegasus, / kes kõlbluskünast piditinti jooma / ja luule kohimehi üles tooma. / Sa vaene Eesti Pegasus!

     No more miserable animal dwelled on the crest of Mount Olympus / than the Estonian Pegasus, / who had to drinkink from the trough of morality / and bring up the eunuchs of poetry. / You poor Estonian Pegasus!

2. ink(a dark fluid ejected by some marine animals such as cuttlefish or squid)

• tint inSõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “tint”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
• “tint”, in[SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2012–

• IPA^(key):/tɛ̃/

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tint

1. third-personsingular past historic oftenir

Apparently fromGermanTinte. See etymology atLatviantinte.

• 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 oftyne

   An efterhin he tint a lot o weicht - Afterwards he lost a lot of weight