Tinted
adjectiveColoured slightly, often with a faint or translucent shade.
How to spell tinted
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce tinted
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does tinted mean?
- adjectiveColoured slightly, often with a faint or translucent shade.
Tinted in a sentence
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The car had tinted windows that kept the interior cool.
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She wore tinted glasses to soften the glare on the road.
Where does tinted come from?
Language of origin: Latin
The word traces back to the Latin tingere, meaning 'to dye, moisten, or soak in colour'. Its past participle tinctus gave English the noun and verb 'tint', which by the seventeenth century described a shade or hue applied to something. The spelling drifted from the earlier 'tinct' to the simpler 'tint', losing the hard c sound along the way. The adjective 'tinted' is simply that verb plus the familiar -ed ending, describing something that has been given a slight colour. The same Latin tingere also produced 'tinge', 'tincture', and even 'taint', all sharing the idea of colour or substance seeping into something.
How the word is built
- tint (from Latin tinctus: dyed, coloured)
- -ed (past participle/adjective suffix)
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