tinctam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tingo, tingere, tinxi, tinctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wet/moisten/dip/soak; color/dye/tinge/tint, stain (w/blood); imbue; impregnate;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...mensas et alias attulerunt, scobemque croco et minio tinctam sparserunt et, quod nunquam ante videram, ex lapide speculari..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Iovis Hospitis ara; ignarus sceleris quam siquis sanguine tinctam advena vidisset, mactatos crederet illic lactantes vitulos Amathusiacasque bidentes..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...discussisque ossibus oris tundit humum moriens scelerato sanguine tinctam.' Musa loquebatur: pennae sonuere per auras, voxque salutantum ramis..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...expalluit ore Pyramus; ut vero vestem quoque sanguine tinctam repperit, "una duos" inquit "nox perdet amantes, e quibus..."