tinter

See also: tînter

English

Etymology

From tint +‎ -er.

Noun

tinter (plural tinters)

1. One who tints.
2. A special slide used with a magic lantern to produce effects such as moonlight.

Anagrams

• nitter, retint, ritten

Catalan

Etymology

From tinta +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tinˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tinˈteɾ]

Noun

tinter m (plural tinters)

1. inkwell

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/

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• Homophones: teinté, teintée, teintées, teinter, teintés, tintez, tinté, tintée, tintées, tintés, tintez

Verb

tinter

1. (ambitransitive) to chime; to jingle
2. (intransitive, of ears) to ring

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.