Etymograph

English

tinction

Tinction comes from Latin tinctiō ‘a soaking, dipping’, from tingō ‘to wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with)’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teng-‘to soak, dip, make wet’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tengōreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtingō‘to wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with)’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtinctiō‘a soaking, dipping’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1888tinction

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teng-‘to soak, dip, make wet’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tengōreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtingō‘to wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with)’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtinctiō‘a soaking, dipping’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1888tinction

Earliest quotation: 1888, Frank Seaver Billings, Swine plague: “[…] not color as well as at others, even…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *teng- ‘to soak, dip, make wet’

think, thought, thank, dunk, 21 more

through Latin tingō ‘to wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with)’

tent, tinge, 7 more

Today it means

noun A stain; a preparation for staining.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teng- / tinction

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