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Added 9 October 2026

tint

/tɪnt/ noun

Latin root: tīnctus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about tint at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color.
after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted
A dye for coloring the hair.
A just detectable amount.
he speaks French with a trace of an accent

verb

Color lightly.
her greying hair was tinged blond

Origin

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“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.

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