Noun: tan
Sample Sentences
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She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.
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I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach.
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In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint. [1848, John Hannett, Bibliopegia, or, The Art of Bookbinding in all its branches, page 65:]
Nouns inflected like tan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu). See: Middle English Nouns '
tan', Latin Nouns '
femur', German Nouns '
Tann', Ancient Greek Nouns '
θάμνος'.