DYE Copy link • DYEv. 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.