tinter
See also: tînter
English
Etymology
Noun
tinter (plural tinters)
- One who tints.
- A special slide used with a magic lantern to produce effects such as moonlight.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tinter m (plural tinters)
Further reading
- “tinter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “tinter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “tinter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tinter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *tinnitāre, frequentative of Latin tinniō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ̃.te/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: teinté, teintée, teintées, teinter, teintés, tintez, tinté, tintée, tintées, tintés, tintez
Verb
tinter
Conjugation
Conjugation of tinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tinter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tintant /tɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tinté /tɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tinte /tɛ̃t/ |
tintes /tɛ̃t/ |
tinte /tɛ̃t/ |
tintons /tɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
tintez /tɛ̃.te/ |
tintent /tɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | tintais /tɛ̃.tɛ/ |
tintais /tɛ̃.tɛ/ |
tintait /tɛ̃.tɛ/ |
tintions /tɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
tintiez /tɛ̃.tje/ |
tintaient /tɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tintai /tɛ̃.te/ |
tintas /tɛ̃.ta/ |
tinta /tɛ̃.ta/ |
tintâmes /tɛ̃.tam/ |
tintâtes /tɛ̃.tat/ |
tintèrent /tɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tinterai /tɛ̃.tʁe/ |
tinteras /tɛ̃.tʁa/ |
tintera /tɛ̃.tʁa/ |
tinterons /tɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
tinterez /tɛ̃.tʁe/ |
tinteront /tɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tinterais /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tinterais /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tinterait /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tinterions /tɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tinteriez /tɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
tinteraient /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tinte /tɛ̃t/ |
tintes /tɛ̃t/ |
tinte /tɛ̃t/ |
tintions /tɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
tintiez /tɛ̃.tje/ |
tintent /tɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | tintasse /tɛ̃.tas/ |
tintasses /tɛ̃.tas/ |
tintât /tɛ̃.ta/ |
tintassions /tɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tintassiez /tɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
tintassent /tɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tinte /tɛ̃t/ |
— | tintons /tɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
tintez /tɛ̃.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “tinter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.