Tingo, vel tinguo, tingis, tinxi, tinctum, tingere. Virgil. To dip in licout: to die coulours.Comæ tingendæ in amne. Propert. Hee muste washe hys haire in, &c.Corpus tingere sparsa aqua. Oui. To wash his bodie with casting water on it.Cultros tinxit sanguine.Ouid.Ferrum tingere sanguine.Ouid.To embrewe.Mare vbi lolent fabri tingere ferrum.Ouidius.In whiche smithes are wont to dip and temper their yron.Tingit cutem Carinus, & tamen pallet. Mart. Hee painteth his skinne, &c.Tingi nardo. Martial. To bee sprinckled with the dintment made of Natdus.Tingere conchylio.Cic.To die vidlet.Poculis tingere aliquem. Hor. To swil ones soule in drink: to make drunke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tingo (less correctly, tinguo), nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [root tvak-, to wet; Sanscr. tuc-; Gr. te/ggw], to wet, moisten, bathe with or in any liquid (class.; cf.: aspergo, irroro, imbuo). I.Lit.: tunica sanguine centauri tincta, Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70: Lydia Pactoli tingit arata liquor, Prop. 1, 6, 32: in amne comas, id. 4 (5), 4, 24: tinget pavimentum mero, Hor. C. 2, 14, 27: Arctos Oceani metuentis aequore tingi, Verg. G. 1, 246: stridentia Aera lacu, id. ib. 4, 172: gemmam lacrimis, Ov. M. 9, 567: in undis summa pedum vestigia, id. ib. 4, 343: pedis vestigia, id. ib. 5, 592: flumine corpora, i. e.
to bathe
, id. ib. 12, 413: corpora lymphis, id. ib. 2, 459: in amne faces, id. R. Am. 700: (asinae) horrent ita ut pedes omnino caveant tingere, Plin. 8, 43, 68, 169. —Poet.: in alto Phoebus anhelos Aequore tinget equos, bathe or plunge, i. e. will set, Ov. M. 15, 419: non ego te meis Immunem meditor tingere poculis, i. e.
to entertain
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treat you
, Hor. C. 4, 12, 23.—B. In partic. 1.To soak in color, to dye, color, tinge (syn. inficio): Phocaico bibulas tingebat murice lanas, Ov. M. 6, 9; cf.: lanas vestium murice Afro, Hor. C. 2, 16, 36. — Poet.: niveam ovem Tyrio murice, Tib. 2, 4, 28: coma viridi cortice tincta nucis, id. 1, 8, 44: vestes Gaetulo murice, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 181: vestem rubro cocco, id. S. 2, 6, 103: sanguine cultros, Ov. M. 7, 599; cf.: secures cervice, Hor. C. 3, 23, 13: ora cruore, Ov. M. 14, 237: comam, id. Am. 1, 14, 2: cutem, i. e.
to paint
, Mart. 1, 77, 5: tinguntur sole populi, i. e.
are embrowned
, Plin. 6, 19, 22, 70: nummos, to wash copper coins with gold or silver, Dig. 48, 10, 8: globus ... candenti lumine tinctus, i. e.
illuminated
, Lucr. 5, 720; so, loca lumine, id. 6, 173.—2. Of colors as objects, to produce, bring out: purpuram, Plin. 6, 31, 36, 201; 16, 18, 31, 77: caeruleum, id. 33, 13, 57, 161.—3.To baptize (late Lat.): tinctus est ab Joanne prophetā in Jordane flumine, Lact. 4, 15, 2.— II.Trop.: orator sit mihi tinctus litteris, audierit aliquid, legerit, tinctured, i. e. imbued, well furnished with, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85: Laelia patris elegantiā tincta, id. Brut. 58, 211: verba sensu tincta, Quint. 4, 2, 117: Romano lepidos sale tinge libellos, Mart. 8, 3, 19: sales lepore Attico tincti, id. 3, 20, 9: in similitudinem sui tingit (virtus), Sen. Ep. 66, 8.—Hence, P. a. as substt.A. tingens, entis, m., a dyer: tingentium officinae, Plin. 9, 38, 62, 133; 37, 9, 40, 122.—B. tincta, ōrum, n., dyed or colored stuffs: tincta absint, Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45.
