tinctura Latin · revision 4206

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=la tingō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [tiːŋkˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [tiŋkˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tīnctūra''' ''f'' (genitive tīnctūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tingo|-tūra|t1=to dip, dye]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Isidore of Seville explained it from cloth being dyed and coloured for beauty.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pliny the Elder uses it of the dyeing of stones and, in the plural, of dyes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates him 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the process of dyeing or tinting.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Vulgate uses it in the Book of Job, and Marcellus Empiricus of marks or spots on the body.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval British Latin it was dyeing, the colouring of skin, and in a phrase a dye-house.^(DMLBS) English ''tincture'' is recorded around 1400 as a dye or pigment.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of dyeing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in Job.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1197 – A British record uses it of dye for sale.^(DMLBS)

+ * c. 1400 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|tincture]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Dyeing, tinting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A mark or spot on the body.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A dye; a dye-house.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tingo|alt=tingō]]

+ * [[en|tincture]]

+ * [[en|tint]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}