English → Latin
“dye” in Latin
tingōto wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with); to smear; to dip, immerse; to give to drink, treat; to colour, dye, tingeīnficiōto dip, to dunk, to submerge; to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge; to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint,capillusa single hair; hair (plurally); a head of hair: locks, tresses
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dye v.
To color (in general), Vid:
By a dyeing process, tingere, with anything, aliqua re (by dipping the stuff into any dyeing matter): inficere, with anything, aliqua re (to do over with anything, so that the object changes, if it does not entirely lose, its natural quality or property): imbuere aliqua re (to soak, to imbue with anything, in general) ☞ In the sense of producing a color, “tingere” is followed by the accusative of the color itself, e.g., to dye of a sea-blue or sky-blue color, caeruleum tingere; purple, purpuram tingere: this dyes a dark purple, hoc fuco hysginum tingitur: woad dyes stuffs blue or sky-blue, vitrum caeruleum efficit colorem: to dye red, rufare (i. e., a yellowish red; e.g., one’s hair, capillum): to dye dark hair red, e nigro rutilum capillum reddere: to dye anything bluish or water-colored, colore caeruleo tingere: dyed blue, caeruleatus. To be used for dyeing cloth., tingendis vestibus idoneum esse (Plin.). Dye, s, infector succus (Plin.): pigmentum: color. Vid: COLOR.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dye?
- The usual Latin words for “dye” are tingō, īnficiō, capillus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.