verb
prae-tingo
Meaning
- to dip in
prae-tingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.,
I. to dip in or moisten beforehand (poet. and in postclass. prose):
semina practincta veneno, Ov. M. 7, 123: aqua, in quā fuerit candens ferrum praetinctum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4.