tinta
English
Etymology
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Noun
tinta (countable and uncountable, plural tintas)
- (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
- Synonym: tent wine
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tinta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Asturian
Catalan
Further reading
- “tinta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “tinta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tinta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tinta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Galician
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtintɐ]
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).
Noun
tinta f (plural tintas)
- ink (coloured fluid used for writing)
- 1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 173:
- Boa tĩta se deue faser en esta guisa: Para hũu neto de tĩta, õça e media de agalla
- The good ink must be prepared in this manner: for preparing a neto of ink, an ounce and a half of oak gall ..
- ink (the black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy)
- Synonym: borra
- red grape
- a particular sickness of the chestnut trees
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
tinta f sg
- dyed; colored; reddish (feminine singular of tinto)
- c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 381:
- Et morrerõ y muytas gentes dambas partes, en guisa que [a] agoa de Doyro toda ya tinta de sangue
- And may people died there, from both sides, so that the water of the Douro river went dyed with blood
References
- “tinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “tinta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “tinta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “tinta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “tinta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtintɒ]
- Hyphenation: tin‧ta
- Rhymes: -tɒ
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tinta | tinták |
accusative | tintát | tintákat |
dative | tintának | tintáknak |
instrumental | tintával | tintákkal |
causal-final | tintáért | tintákért |
translative | tintává | tintákká |
terminative | tintáig | tintákig |
essive-formal | tintaként | tintákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | tintában | tintákban |
superessive | tintán | tintákon |
adessive | tintánál | tintáknál |
illative | tintába | tintákba |
sublative | tintára | tintákra |
allative | tintához | tintákhoz |
elative | tintából | tintákból |
delative | tintáról | tintákról |
ablative | tintától | tintáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
tintáé | tintáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
tintáéi | tintákéi |
Possessive forms of tinta | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | tintám | tintáim |
2nd person sing. | tintád | tintáid |
3rd person sing. | tintája | tintái |
1st person plural | tintánk | tintáink |
2nd person plural | tintátok | tintáitok |
3rd person plural | tintájuk | tintáik |
Further reading
- tinta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tinta, from Portuguese tinta (“ink”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tin.ta/
- Hyphenation: tin‧ta
Derived terms
- menintai
- peninta
- penintaan
- tinta cetak
- tinta cina
- tinta emas
- tinta koran
- tinta litografi
- tinta stensil
Further reading
- “tinta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtin.ta/
- Rhymes: -inta
- Hyphenation: tìn‧ta
Derived terms
- in tinta unita (“plain, self-colored”)
- tinteggiare (“to paint”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- tinta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- tinta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- tinta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- tinta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- tinta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Kashubian
Alternative forms
- tińta
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtinta/
- Syllabification: tin‧ta
Further reading
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “atrament”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
- “tinta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀢𑀺𑀦𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
- तिन्त (Devanagari script)
- তিন্ত (Bengali script)
- තින්ත (Sinhalese script)
- တိန္တ or တိၼ္တ or တိၼ်တ (Burmese script)
- ตินฺต or ตินตะ (Thai script)
- ᨲᩥᨶ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
- ຕິນ຺ຕ or ຕິນຕະ (Lao script)
- តិន្ត (Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄨𑄚𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)
Portuguese

Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃĩ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃĩ.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtĩ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: tin‧ta
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese tinta, tĩta, from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb).
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tinta
- inflection of tintar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “tinta” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “tinta” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “tinta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tinta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “tinta” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “tinta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Sassarese

Etymology
From Catalan and Spanish tinta, from Latin tīncta, derived from tingō (“I wet; I colour, dye”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtinta/
Noun
tinta f (plural tinti)
References
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
Silesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtinta/
- Rhymes: -inta
- Syllabification: tin‧ta
Further reading
- Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “tinta”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 294
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtinta/ [ˈt̪ĩn̪.t̪a]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -inta
- Syllabification: tin‧ta
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin tincta (“dyed”), perfect passive participle of tingō (“dye”, verb). Cognate with English tint, Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, and Portuguese tinta.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tinta
- inflection of tintar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “tinto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtinta/ [ˈtin.tɐ], /tinˈta/ [tɪnˈta]
- Rhymes: -inta, -a
- Syllabification: tin‧ta
Noun
tinta or tintá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜈ᜔ᜆ)
Derived terms
- matinta
- matintahan
- tintahan
- tintahin
See also
Further reading
- “tinta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018