tint

Meanings

Noun

• A slight coloring.
• A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
• A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
• A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
• A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

Verb

• To shade, to color.

Origin

• Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte ("tint"), from Latin tinctus ("dyed"), past participle of verb tingō. tent. 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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