tinta

See also: tintá and țintă

English

Noun

tinta (countable and uncountable, plural tintas)

1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

   Synonym: tent wine

See also

• tent

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tinta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• 'taint, Nitta, Tanit, Titan, nitta, taint, titan

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Noun

tinta f (plural tintes)

1. ink (coloured fluid used for writing)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtin.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtin.ta/

Noun

tinta f (plural tintes)

1. ink

Further reading

• “tinta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tinta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tinta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tinta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃.ta/
• Homophones: tintas, tintât

Verb

tinta

1. third-person singular past historic of tinter

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Galician

Tinta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtintɐ]

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Noun

tinta f (plural tintas)

1. ink (coloured fluid used for writing)
   • 1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 173:

     Boa tĩta se deue faser en esta guisa: Para hũu neto de tĩta, õça e media de agalla

     The good ink must be prepared in this manner: for preparing a neto of ink, a ounce and a half of oak gall ..

2. ink (the black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy)

   Synonym: borra

3. red grape
4. a particular sickness of the chestnut trees

Related terms

• tinguir
• tinto
• tintura

 

Derived terms

• tinteiro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tinta f sg

1. dyed; colored; reddish (feminine singular of tinto)
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 381:

     Et morrerõ y muytas gentes dambas partes, en guisa que [a] agoa de Doyro toda ya tinta de sangue

     And may people died there, from both sides, so that the water of the Douro river went dyed with blood

References

• “tinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tinta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tinta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tinta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtintɒ]
• Hyphenation: tin‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

tinta (plural tinták)

1. ink
2. (slang) booze

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tinta	tinták
accusative	tintát	tintákat
dative	tintának	tintáknak
instrumental	tintával	tintákkal
causal-final	tintáért	tintákért
translative	tintává	tintákká
terminative	tintáig	tintákig
essive-formal	tintaként	tintákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tintában	tintákban
superessive	tintán	tintákon
adessive	tintánál	tintáknál
illative	tintába	tintákba
sublative	tintára	tintákra
allative	tintához	tintákhoz
elative	tintából	tintákból
delative	tintáról	tintákról
ablative	tintától	tintáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tintáé	tintáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tintáéi	tintákéi

Possessive forms of tinta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tintám	tintáim
2nd person sing.	tintád	tintáid
3rd person sing.	tintája	tintái
1st person plural	tintánk	tintáink
2nd person plural	tintátok	tintáitok
3rd person plural	tintájuk	tintáik

Derived terms

• tintás
• tintáz
• tintázik

 

Compound words

• tintahal
• tintapárna
• tintapatron
• tintatartó

 

Further reading

• tinta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tinta, from Portuguese tinta (“ink”), from Old Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin.ta/
• Hyphenation: tin‧ta

Noun

tinta

1. ink

   Synonyms: dawat, mangsi

Derived terms

• menintai
• peninta
• penintaan
• tinta cetak
• tinta cina
• tinta emas
• tinta koran
• tinta litografi
• tinta stensil

 

Further reading

• “tinta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Interlingua

Noun

tinta (plural tintas)

1. paint

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtin.ta/
• Hyphenation: tìn‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Noun

tinta f (plural tinte)

1. dye
2. colour
3. paint

Derived terms

• in tinta unita (“plain, self-colored”)
• tinteggiare (“to paint”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tinta f sg

1. feminine singular of tinto

Further reading

• tinta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• tinta in Grandi Dizionari
• tinta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• tinta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• tinta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• tanti

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀺𑀦𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
• तिन्त (Devanagari script)
• তিন্ত (Bengali script)
• තින‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
• တိန္တ or တိၼ္တ or တိၼ်တ (Burmese script)
• ตินฺต or ตินตะ (Thai script)
• ᨲᩥᨶ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕິນ຺ຕ or ຕິນຕະ (Lao script)
• តិន្ត (Khmer script)

Adjective

tinta

1. wet
2. moist

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Portuguese

tinta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈt͡ʃĩ.tɐ/, [ˈt͡ʃĩ.tɐ]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈtĩ.tɐ/, [ˈtĩ.tɐ]

• Hyphenation: tin‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).

Noun

tinta f (plural tintas)

1. paint
2. ink
3. dye

Derived terms

• tinteiro

Related terms

• tingir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tinta

1. feminine singular of tinto

Further reading

• “tinta” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “tinta” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “tinta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tinta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “tinta” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tinta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tinte.

Noun

tinta f

1. ink

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtinta/, [ˈt̪ĩn̪.t̪a]

Etymology 1

From Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb). Cognate with English tint, Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, and Portuguese tinta.

Noun

tinta f (plural tintas)

1. (writing) ink

Derived terms

• cagatintas
• cargar las tintas
• chupatintas
• de buena tinta
• sudar tinta
• tinta china
• tinterillo
• tintero

 

Related terms

• teñir
• tinto
• tintura

 

Descendants

• → Tataltepec Chatino: tintya

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tinta

1. feminine singular of tinto

References

• “tinta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swazi

Noun

tínta 10

1. pubic hair

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tinta (“ink”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tin‧ta
• IPA^(key): /tinˈta/, [tɪnˈta]

Noun

tintá

1. ink

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Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tinta (“ink”).

Noun

tinta

1. ink