dye (v.) Copy link Outline 1. tingo or tinguo, xi, ctum, 32. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 33. fūco, 1 (strictly to colour red) • dye (v.): 1. tingo or tinguo, xi, ctum, 3: wool double d.d in purple, lanae bis murice tinctae, Hor.: to d. the hair, comam t., Ov.: to d. purple, purpuram t. (to impart the colour by dyeing), Plin. Fig.: a modest blush d.s the cheek, verecundus t. ora pudor, Ov. 2. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to d. purple, purpuram inf., Plin.: the Britons d. their skin with woad, Britanni se vitro inf., Caes.: v. to stain. 3. fūco, 1 (strictly to colour red): to d. wool with Assyrian drugs, lanam Assyrio f. veneno, Virg.: Claud. Phr.: to d. the hair, capillos medicare, Ov.: fleeces d.d at Aquinum, Aquinatem potantia vellera fucum, Hor.: to be d.d various colours, varios mentiri colores, Virg.