teint

From French teint, teinte. See tint.

• IPA^(key): /teɪnt/
• Rhymes: -eɪnt

teint (plural teints)

1. (obsolete) Colour, tinge; tint.
   • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:

     For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; / Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he takes away.

   • 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian, Chapter VII:

     The paleness of Madame de St. Irvyne's cheek, on which the only teint was an occasional and hectic flush, announced that the illness which consumed her, rapidly increased, and would soon lead her gently to the gates of death.

   • 1844, Mary Noel McDonald, Poems, The Dying Boy:

     There was no rose-teint on his wasted cheek

• “teint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ettin, tinet

From French teint (“complexion”), from teindre (“to dye, tint”), from Latin tingere (“to colour, dye, tinge”).

• IPA^(key): /tɛnɡ/, [tˢɛŋ]

teint c (singular definite teinten, not used in plural form)

1. complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)

• “teint” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Old French, from Latin tinctus.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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• Homophones: tain, teins, thym, tins, tint, tînt
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

teint (feminine teinte, masculine plural teints, feminine plural teintes)

1. past participle of teindre

teint

1. third-person singular present indicative of teindre

teint (feminine teinte, masculine plural teints, feminine plural teintes)

1. dyed; tinted

teint m (plural teints)

1. tint

• fond de teint

• teinte
• teinture

• → Danish: teint
• → German: Teint
• → Romanian: ten

• “teint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tetin, tétin, tient

Borrowed from French teint.

teint c

1. complexion (color and appearance of skin on the face)

• teint in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• teint in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)