Tinea vs Tinta - What's the difference?
tinea | tinta |
(pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:
*:Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea , her fingernails black and broken.
(archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
