tina

• Tina

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tina (uncountable)

1. (slang) The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride (crystal meth).

• “tina n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• nait, Atin, ain't, aniṭ, Tian, tain, anti, tian, Tani, aint, Tain, -itan, NAIT, anti-

Chemical element
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From Proto-Finnic *tina.

tina (genitive tina, partitive tina)

1. tin

Declension of tina (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tina	tinad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tina
genitive			tinade
partitive		tina	tinasid
illative		tinna tinasse	tinadesse
inessive		tinas	tinades
elative		tinast	tinadest
allative		tinale	tinadele
adessive		tinal	tinadel
ablative		tinalt	tinadelt
translative		tinaks	tinadeks
terminative		tinani	tinadeni
essive		tinana	tinadena
abessive		tinata	tinadeta
comitative		tinaga	tinadega

From Zulu thina.

tina

1. we, us; first-person plural pronoun.

tina

1. mother

element

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	Next:	antimoni

From Proto-Finnic *tina, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tiną (“tin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtinɑ/, [ˈt̪inɑ̝]

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• Rhymes: -inɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ti‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): ti‧na

tina

1. tin (metal)
2. pewter (tin alloy containing 85-99% tin plus copper and antimony, used e.g. for making tableware)

The word tina is often used generally of alloys that consist predominantly of tin. If it is necessary to point out that the metal discussed is an alloy, the word tinaseos (“tin alloy”) might be used. Some alloys have specific names according to their main use, e.g. astiatina (“pewter”).

• (pewter): astiatina

• “tina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• anti, anti-, nait, tain

tina

1. feminine singular of tin

From Old Galician-Portuguese tỹa (“bathtub”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tīna (“wine vessel”), from Etruscan 𐌈𐌉𐌍𐌀 (θina, “type of vessel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtina̝/

tina f (plural tinas)

1. vat
2. tub, bathtub

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ty_a”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tina”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tina”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tina”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Finnic *tina. Cognates include Finnish tina and Estonian tina.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtinɑ/, [ˈtʲinɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtinɑ/, [ˈtinɑ]
• Rhymes: -inɑ
• Hyphenation: ti‧na

tina

1. tin
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 40:

     Vasen ja tinan sekotust saotaa bronzaks.

     The mixture of copper and tin is called bronze.

2. lead
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 35:

     Puhas tina männöö trubbiin, lootiin, hauliin ja plombin tekömist vart.

     Pure lead is used for the making of pipes, pellets, bullets and seals.

Declension of tina (type 3/kana, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	tina	tinat
genitive	tinan	tinnoin
partitive	tinnaa	tinoja
illative	tinnaa	tinnoi
inessive	tinas	tinois
elative	tinast	tinoist
allative	tinalle	tinoille
adessive	tinal	tinoil
ablative	tinalt	tinoilt
translative	tinaks	tinoiks
essive	tinanna, tinnaan	tinoinna, tinnoin
exessive1)	tinant	tinoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 586

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: tì‧na

tina f (plural tine)

1. alternative form of tino

• tinella

• anti, anti-, nati

From Etruscan 𐌈𐌉𐌍𐌀 (θina, “type of vessel”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.na]

tīna f (genitive tīnae); first declension

1. wine-vessel

First-declension noun.

• Albanian: tinë
• Catalan: tina, tinell
• French: tine, tinet
• Galician: tinalla
• Italian: tina
• Portuguese: tina
• Spanish: tina, tinaja

• “tina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "tina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Arabic تِينة (tīna), singulative of تِين (tīn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːna/

tina f (singulative, collective tin, paucal tiniet)

1. singulative of tin: a fig (single fruit)

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tina

1. be firm, hard, steadfast
   • 1852, William Williams, A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, 2nd edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 172:

     Tina ana i te mataku o te taua; He sits still through fear of the enemy.

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2. be constipated

tina

1. constipation

Borrowed from English dinner (“midday meal”).

tina

1. lunch, dinner (midday meal)

tina

1. have lunch

• tōtiti tina

• Biggs, Bruce [Grandison] (1990) English–Maori, Maori–English Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, EBSCOhost edsebk, Goodreads, Google Books, Library Thing, Nexus/STC, page 137
• Williams, William (1852) A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, second edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 172: “Tína, v. To sit still through fear.”
• Williams, William (1852) A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, second edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 172: “*Tína, s. Dinner.”

From Old Norse þíðna.

• tine (e- and split infinitives)

tina (present tense tinar/tiner, past tense tina/tinte, past participle tina/tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tina/tin)

1. (ambitransitive) to thaw

From Old Norse tína.

• tine (e- and split infinitives)

tina (present tense tiner, past tense tinte, past participle tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
2. to remove the awn from the grain
3. to extract a nut from its shell

Through French from Latin tina (“wine-vessel”).

tina f (definite singular tina, indefinite plural tiner or tinor, definite plural tinene or tinone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tine
2. definite singular of tine

• “tina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• anti, anti-, nati, nita, tani, Tina

From Latin tīna (“wine-vessel”), from Etruscan 𐌈𐌉𐌍𐌀 (θina, “type of vessel”).

tina f (plural tinas)

1. vat
2. tub

tina

1. inflection of tinir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

tinà

1. dye

Inherited from Latin tīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtina/ [ˈt̪i.na]

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ti‧na

tina f (plural tinas)

1. vat
2. large earthenware jar
3. (Mexico) bucket

   Synonyms: balde, cubeta

4. (Mexico) tub, bathtub

   Synonym: bañera

• “tina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “tina”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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tina c

1. a pot, a cage trap (type of fishing trap)
   1. a lobster pot, a lobster trap

      Synonym: hummertina

   2. a crab pot, a crab trap

      Synonym: krabbtina

   3. an eelpot, an eel trap

      Synonyms: åltina, ålkupa

2. a type of smaller (staved) tub (for food storage or transportation)

Tina vs. mjärde appears to be fuzzy. A tina might usually be used to catch crustaceans in seawater. Only hummertina is used for a lobster pot.

• smörtina (“staved wooden butter tub”)

• fiskfälla (“fish trap”)
• laggkärl (“staved wooden vessel”)
• mjärde
• ryssja (“fyke net”)

tina (present tinar, preterite tinade, supine tinat, imperative tina)

1. (sometimes with upp (“up”)) to thaw, to unfreeze

   Kan du tina den frysta fisken till ikväll?

   Can you thaw the frozen fish for tonight?

• smälta
• töa

• tina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• anti-, inat, inta, tian

Possibly from Spanish tinta or tinte. Compare Tausug tina'. Doublet of tinta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtinaʔ/ [ˈt̪iː.n̪ɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -inaʔ
• Syllabification: ti‧na

tinà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜈ)

1. dye

   Synonyms: panina, pantina, pangkolor, pangolor, tayom, panayom, pantayom

2. act of dyeing fabrics

   Synonyms: pagkokolor, pagkakakulay

3. (obsolete) black dye

• tinta

• “tina”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 572: “Teñir) Tina (pp) de negro con yeruas [y corteças] de çierta manera”

• tian, inat, Tian, atin, anit

From Proto-Finnic *tina.

tina (genitive tina, partitive tinna)

1. tin

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Finnic *tina.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈtinɑ/, [ˈtʲinɑ]
• Rhymes: -inɑ
• Hyphenation: ti‧na

tina

1. tin

Declension of tina (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tina	tinad
genitive	tina	tinojõ, tinoi
partitive	tinna	tinoitõ, tinoi
illative	tinnasõ, tinna	tinoisõ
inessive	tinaz	tinoiz
elative	tinassõ	tinoissõ
allative	tinalõ	tinoilõ
adessive	tinallõ	tinoillõ
ablative	tinaltõ	tinoiltõ
translative	tinassi	tinoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• sigatina (“lead”)

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “tina”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn