How do you pronounce tinct?

The recorded pronunciation is /tɪŋkt/.

Where does tinct come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

tinct

/tɪŋkt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: tinct
IPA: /tɪŋkt/

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Meaning

noun

A tint or colour.

Archaic

verb

to tint, tinge or colour

adj

tinged or lightly coloured

noun

Abbreviation of tincture.

Example Sentences

"blue of heaven's own tinct"
"[She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]"
"The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine."
"The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *teng-, tynct, tīnctus

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

tincts (plural) tincts (present, singular) tincting (participle, present) tincted (participle, past) tincted (past) more tinct (comparative) most tinct (superlative)

Derived Forms

untincted

Synonyms

tint tinge touch

Rhymes With

linked distinct instinct extinct inked succinct synced winked