tinctura

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

tinctura (plural tincturae)

1. (obsolete, medicine) tincture

• taciturn, urticant

From tingō +‎ -tūra.

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

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.

First-declension noun.

tīnctūra

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

tīnctūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of tīnctūrus

• “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.

tinctura f (plural tincturas)

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

From tinctură.

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

1. to dye

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