Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of tingō.

Participle edit

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

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

Declension edit

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 edit

Descendants edit

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: tinto
    • Sicilian: tintu
  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: tintu
    • Galician: tinto
    • Portuguese: tinto
    • Spanish: tinto (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

From tincta f:

References edit

  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to have received a superficial education: litteris leviter imbutum or tinctum esse