Tincted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Having been lightly coloured or stained with a particular hue, as if a small amount of dye had been added
2. Gently dyed or flavoured with a trace of some colour or quality, in an archaic manner
3. Slightly coloured or imbued with a faint shade, as with a tint applied to something

Etymology: "Tincted" is simply the past tense and past participle of "tinct," a verb meaning to dye or colour something, or to fill it with a tint. Its base form has been in English since Middle English, when writers used "tincten" and related spellings, borrowed from the Latin "tinctus," the past participle of "tingere," meaning "to tinge" or "to dye." That Latin verb is the source of an odd pairing in English: "tint" and "tinct" are doublets, two words from the same root that entered the language by different routes and took on different shapes. "Tint" came in more lightly, while "tinct" kept closer to its Latin form and stayed a learned, somewhat rarer term. The two words share a meaning of colouring, so "tinct" can be thought of as the more formal sibling of "tint."

Synonyms: tinge, tint, dye, colour

Antonyms: bleach, decolorize