Definition of tinto in English:
tinto
nounPlural tintos ˈtɪntəʊ
mass nounSpanish or Portuguese red wine.
Example sentencesExamples
- Iain is weaving in and out of the lamp-posts, and I'm still wearing the wide grin that comes from too much tinto and too many dances with strangers.
- Anyway, wine was drunk, music was played, cookies eaten, people laughed and relaxed and chucked glasses of tinto all over my carpet, but I didn't care.
- I discovered a taste for wine, tinto, blanco or rosado, that has never left me.
- Two local hikers toast the panorama - tawny mountains, myriad vales and dells - with vino tinto.
- Spain divides her red wines into those which really are tinto and lighter ones called clarete.
Origin
Spanish, literally 'tinted, dark-coloured'.