different between colour vs tinct

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 Latin tinctus, past participle of ting? (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??kt/
• Rhymes: -??kt

Noun

tinct (plural tincts)

1. (archaic) a tint or colour
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

     all the devices blazoned on the shield, in their own tinct

   • 1889. Gissing, George. The Nether World, Volume 3 Chapter 1:

     The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.

Verb

tinct (third-person singular simple present tincts, present participle tincting, simple past and past participle tincted)

1. to tint, tinge or colour

Adjective

tinct (comparative more tinct, superlative most tinct)

1. tinged or lightly coloured

Noun

tinct

1. Abbreviation of tincture.