Define:Pine
Relatit: piné
English
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Pronunciation
eeditEtymology 1
eeditFrae Laitin pīnus, frae Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”). Cognate wi Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”).
Noun
eeditPine (countable and uncountable, plural Pines)
- (countable, Template:Context 2) Ony coniferous tree o the genus Pinus.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, 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, The China Governess[1]:
- 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.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- (countable) Ony tree (uisually coniferous) which resembles a member o this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable) The wid o this tree.
Synonyms
eeditDerived terms
eedit- bunya pine
- hoop pine
- Huon pine
- jack pine
- Norfolk Island pine
- pineal
- pineaiple
- pine beetle
- pinecone, pine cone
- pine needle
- pine nit
- pine tree
- stane pine
- white pine
- Wollemi pine
- yellae pine
Translations
eedittree o the genus Pinus
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tree which resembles pine in some respect
pinewid
Etymology 2
eedit, frae *pine “pain”, possibly frae Laitin
, frae Ancient Greek
. Cognate tae
. Entered Germanic wi Christianity; cognate tae Middle Dutch
, Auld Heich German
, Auld Norse
.[1]
Noun
eeditPine (plural Pines)
Translations
eeditpainful langin
Verb
eeditPine (third-person singular simple present Pines, present participle pining, simple past an past participle pined)
- Tae languish; tae lose flesh or wear away through distress; tae druip.
- Tickell
- The roses wither an the lilies pine.
- Tickell
- (intransitive) Tae lang, tae yearn so much that it causes sufferin.
- Laura was pining away 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[2], ISBN 978054505575, page 29:
- The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
- (transitive) Tae grieve or mourn for.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (transitive) Tae inflict pain upon; tae torment; tae tortur; tae afflict.
- Bishop Hall
- One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
- Bishop Hall
Translations
eedittae lang for sufferinly
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References
eeditAnagrams
eeditDanish
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /piːnə/
Etymology 1
eeditFrae Old Saxon
(late Auld Norse
), frae Medieval Latin
, frae Laitin
, frae Ancient Greek
.
Noun
eeditPine c (singular definite Pinen, plural indefinite Piner)
Inflection
eeditEtymology 2
eeditDerived frae
. Compare Auld Norse
.
Verb
eeditPine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle er/har pint)
Synonyms
eeditItalian
eeditNoun
eeditpine Template:F
Anagrams
eeditLatin
eeditNoun
eeditpīne
Maori
eeditEtymology
eeditProbably Inglis pin
Noun
eeditPine
Norwegian Bokmål
eeditVerb
eeditPine (present tense piner; past tense pinte; past participle pint)
Norwegian Nynorsk
eeditVerb
eeditPine (present tense piner; past tense pinte; past participle pint; passive infinitive Pinast; present participle Pinande; imperative Pin)
West Frisian
eeditNoun
eeditpine