tint
noun
[ tɪnt ]
• a shade or variety of a colour.
• "the sky was taking on an apricot tint"
• an artificial dye for colouring the hair.
tint
verb
• colour (something) slightly; tinge.
• "her skin was tinted with delicate colour"
Origin:
early 18th century: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta ) of obsolete tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.
