different between colour vs teinture

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

• “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Old French

Noun

colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French teinture. See the doublet tincture.

Noun

teinture (plural teintures)

1. (obsolete) colour; tinge; tincture

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin tinct?ra, from tinctus the perfect passive participle of ting?.

Noun

teinture f (plural teintures)

1. A liquid dye, colourant
2. A color, shade thus applied
3. A dying job, process
4. A solution in ethric liquids such as alcohol, notably in pharmacy
5. (figuratively) A superficial knowledge

Derived terms

• teinturerie

Related terms

• teindre (verb)
• teint m, teinte f

Further reading

• “teinture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).