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distain

Meaningcolour

Common meaning: stain or disgrace

Journey through time

  1. Latintingere‘colour’source
  2. Old Frenchdesteindre‘take away colour’source
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftstake away colour → staindesteinen‘stain’source
  4. Englishdistain‘stain or disgrace’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin tingere ‘colour’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry DISTAIN, p. 173 · dictionary scan

Roots

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