tinctura

See also: tinctură

English

Etymology

From Latin tīnctūra. Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tincture.

Noun

tinctura (plural tincturae)

1. (obsolete, medicine) tincture

Related terms

• tinctura myrrhae

 

Anagrams

• taciturn, urticant

Latin

Etymology

From tingō +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• tīnctūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiːnkˈtuː.ra/, [t̪iːŋkˈt̪uːrä]
• tīnctūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tinkˈtu.ra/, [t̪iŋkˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

tīnctūra f (genitive tīnctūrae); first declension

1. a dyeing
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.119:

     Reddetur et per se cyanos, accommodato paulo ante et iaspidi nomine a colore caeruleo. optima Scythica, dein Cypria, postremo Aegyptia. adulteratur maxime tinctura, idque in gloria est regum Aegypti; adscribitur et qui primus tinxit. dividitur autem et haec in mares feminasque. inest ei aliquando et aureus pulvis, non qualis sappiris; in his enim aurum punctis conlucet.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tīnctūra	tīnctūrae
genitive	tīnctūrae	tīnctūrārum
dative	tīnctūrae	tīnctūrīs
accusative	tīnctūram	tīnctūrās
ablative	tīnctūrā	tīnctūrīs
vocative	tīnctūra	tīnctūrae

Descendants

• Asturian: tintura
• Catalan: tintura
• Corsican: tintura
• → Danish: tinktur
• English: tincture
• French: teinture
• Friulian: tenture
• Galician: tintura
• → German: Tinktur
• Italian: tintura
• Occitan: tenchura
• Piedmontese: tintura
• Portuguese: tintura
• Sicilian: tintura
• Spanish: tintura
• → Swedish: tinktur
• Venetan: tentura

Participle

tīnctūra

1. inflection of tīnctūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

tīnctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of tīnctūrus

References

• “tinctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tinctura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

tinctura f (plural tincturas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tintura.

Romanian

Etymology

From tinctură.

Verb

a tinctura (third-person singular present tincturează, past participle tincturat) 1st conj.

1. to dye

Conjugation

    conjugation of tinctura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a tinctura
gerund			tincturând
past participle			tincturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	tincturez	tincturezi	tincturează	tincturăm	tincturați	tincturează
	imperfect	tincturam	tincturai	tinctura	tincturam	tincturați	tincturau
	simple perfect	tincturai	tincturași	tinctură	tincturarăm	tincturarăți	tincturară
	pluperfect	tincturasem	tincturaseși	tincturase	tincturaserăm	tincturaserăți	tincturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să tincturez	să tincturezi	să tinctureze	să tincturăm	să tincturați	să tinctureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		tincturează			tincturați
	negative		nu tinctura			nu tincturați

Further reading

• tinctura in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)