tint

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

US /tɪnt/ UK /tɪnt/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like tenth /θ/ vs /t/

Meanings

1

noun
a shade or variety of a color; to color slightly

The dawn sky took on a faint rose tint.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a shade or variety of a... shade hue tinge color tone cast

Word family

Derived forms tintedtinting

Related forms tincttincture taint tinge

Simplified etymology

Tint, recorded from the early 18th century, was originally tinct and ultimately goes back to Latin tingere, “to dye or colour.”

Etymology

An alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus ('a dyeing'), from tingere ('to dye, color').

tinctus Latin tingere Latin

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General Vocabulary

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# tint

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /tɪnt/
**IPA (UK):** /tɪnt/

## Meanings
1. a shade or variety of a color; to color slightly

## Examples
- The dawn sky took on a faint rose tint.

## Synonyms
- shade
- hue
- tinge
- color
- tone
- cast

## Derived Forms
- tinted
- tinting

## Related Forms
- tinct
- tincture
- taint
- tinge

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tinctus
- Root: tingere

## Etymology
An alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus ('a dyeing'), from tingere ('to dye, color').

## AI Etymology
Tint is an alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus ('a dyeing'), from tingere ('to dye, color'). The historical chain includes Latin tinctus and Latin tingere. The quoted older senses, "a dyeing" and "to dye, color", supply the semantic anchors for tint. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word tint carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a shade or variety of a color; to color slightly". English derivatives include tinted and tinting; related English forms include tinct, tincture, taint, and tinge. The result is a noun and verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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