pine

See also: piné

English

WOTD – 14 December 2011

Pronunciation

a Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) (1)
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /paɪn/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”).

Noun

pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎:
      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
    The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
  2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  4. (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.
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Etymology 2

From Old English pinian (“torment”), from *pine (“pain”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain.

Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pinon, Old Norse pina.[1]

Noun

pine (plural pines)

  1. (archaic) A painful longing.
Translations

Verb

pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

  1. To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem. ; to think something over.
  2. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
    • Tickell
      The roses wither and the lilies pine.
  3. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
    Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
    • 1855, John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
      Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
    • 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field‎, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 29:
      The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
  4. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
  5. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
    • Bishop Hall
      One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
Translations

References

  1. ↑ “pine” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piːnə/, [ˈpʰiːnə], [ˈpʰiːn̩]

Etymology 1

From Old Saxon pīna (late Old Norse pína), from Medieval Latin pēna (“punishment”), from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

Noun

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

  1. torment
  2. (in compounds) ache
Inflection

Etymology 2

Derived from pine (“torment”). Compare Old Norse pína and Middle Low German pīnen.

Verb

pine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, perfect tense er/har pint)

  1. torment
  2. torture
Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pin/

Noun

pine f (plural pines)

  1. (slang) nob, penis

Verb

pine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of piner
  2. third-person singular present indicative of piner
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of piner
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of piner
  5. second-person singular imperative of piner

Further reading

Italian

Noun

pine f

  1. plural of pina

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

pīne

  1. vocative singular of pīnus

Maori

Etymology

Probably English pin

Noun

pine

  1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

Noun

pine f, m (definite singular pina or pinen, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint)

  1. to torment, to torture

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

Noun

pine f (definite singular pina, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint, passive infinitive pinast, present participle pinande, imperative pin)

  1. to torment, to torture

References

Portuguese

Verb

pine

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pinar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pinar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pinar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pinar

West Frisian

Noun

pine c (plural pinen)

  1. pain, ache
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