pine
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /paɪn/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology 1
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From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”). Doublet of pinus. Related to fat.
Noun
[edit]pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:
- 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.
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- Synonym: pinewood
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- " […] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.
- 1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 7, pages 38–39:
- Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
- 2013, Sam Zygner, The Forgotten Marlins, page 287:
- […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.
- 2019, Martin Copeland, The Boys from Dogtown:
- Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?
Derived terms
[edit]- Aleppo pine
- arolla pine (Pinus cembra)
- Austrian pine (Pinus nigra)
- ayacahuite pine
- Balfour pine
- Balkan pine
- Baltic pine
- black pine (Pinus nigra etc.)
- Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii)
- Brazilian pine (Araucaria angustifolia)
- bristlecone pine (Pinus subsect. Balfourianae spp.)
- bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii)
- Canadian red pine
- Caribbean pine
- celery pine
- Chile pine/Chilean pine (Araucaria araucana)
- chilgoza pine
- Corsican pine
- Cuban pine
- cypress pine (Cupressaceae spp.)
- digger pine (Pinus sabiniana)
- Dundathu pine
- eastern white pine
- fern pine
- festoon pine
- foothill pine
- foxtail pine
- grab some pine
- gray pine
- grey pine (Pinus banksiana)
- ground pine
- Guadalupe pine (Pinus radiata var. binata)
- hard pine (Pinus subg. Pinus spp.)
- hazel pine
- heart pine
- high as a Georgia pine
- Hispaniolan pine
- Hispaniola pine
- hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii)
- horsetail pine (Pinus massoniana)
- Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii)
- Illawarra mountain pine
- insignis-pine
- insignis pine (Pinus radiata)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- Japanese pine
- Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi)
- Jerusalem pine
- joint pine (Ephedra spp.)
- King Billy pine/King William pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides)
- klinkii pine
- klinki pine (Araucaria hunsteinii)
- knobcone pine
- Korean pine
- Lambert pine (Pinus lambertiana)
- Leichhardt pine
- Leichhardt's pine
- loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
- longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)
- Macedonian pine
- Macquarie pine
- maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)
- Mexican white pine
- Monterey pine (Pinus radiata)
- mountain pine (Pinus mugo)
- mugo pine (Pinus mugo)
- Murray pine
- Norfolk Island pine/Norfolk pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
- Norfolk Island star pine
- North Carolina pine
- Norway pine (Pinus resinosa)
- nut pine
- Oyster Bay pine
- Parana pine/Paraná pine (Araucaria angustifolia)
- parasol pine
- pencil pine
- pickled pine
- pineal
- pine aphid
- pineapple
- pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.)
- pine box
- pine bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)
- Pine City
- pine-cone
- pinecone, pine cone
- Pine County
- pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea)
- pinefinch
- pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens)
- pine green
- pine grosbeak
- pine grouse
- pine kernel
- Pine Lake
- pine marten (Martes martes)
- pine-moss
- Pine Mountain
- pine mouth
- pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare)
- pine needle
- pine nut
- pine nut syndrome
- pine oil
- pine processionary
- Pine Rat
- pine reproduction weevil
- pine sap
- pinesap (Monotropa hypopitys)
- pine shoot moth (Rhyacionia buoliana)
- pine siskin
- pine snake
- pine squirrel (Tamiasciurus spp.)
- pine tar
- pine terpene
- pine thistle (Carlina gummifera)
- pine torch
- pine tree (Pinus spp.)
- Pine Valley Mountains
- pine vole (Microtus pinetorum)
- pine warbler
- pineweed (Hypericum sarothra)
- pine weevil (Hylobius abietis)
- pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata)
- piñon pine (Pinus subsect. Cembroides)
- pitch pine (Pinus rigida etc.)
- plum pine (Podocarpaceae spp.)
- ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Port Jackson pine
- prince's pine (Chimaphila umbellata)
- pug and pine
- Puget Sound pine
- radiata pine (Pinus radiata)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- remarkable pine
- ride the pine
- rosemary pine
- Rottnest Island pine
- Scotch pine/Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
- screw pine (Pandanus)
- scrub pine (Pinus banksiana)
- shore pine (Pinus contorta)
- shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata)
- Siberian pine
- silver pine (Manoao colensoi)
- slash pine
- slender cypress pine
- soft pine (Pinus subg. Strobus)
- southern cypress pine
- southern yellow pine
- spruce pine
- star pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
- stone pine (Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra)
- sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
- Sumatran pine
- swamp pine (Pinus elliottii)
- Swiss pine (Pinus cembra)
- Swiss stone pine
- tanyosho pine
- Torrey pine
- Turkish pine (Pinus brutia)
- umbrella pine (Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra)
- western yellow pine
- white pine (Pinus subg. Strobus spp.)
- Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)
- yellow pine
- yew pine
Translations
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English pine, pyne, from Old English *pīn (“pain”), from Proto-Germanic *pīnō (“pain, torment, torture”), 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 pīnōn, Old Norse pína.[1]
Noun
[edit]pine (plural pines)
Translations
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English pinen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-Germanic *pīnōną, from Proto-Germanic *pīnō (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).
Verb
[edit]pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)
- (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
- c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
- Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
- 1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, pages 299–300:
- [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
- 170?, Thomas Tickell, To a Lady; With a Present of Flowers:
- This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
- 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[1], →ISBN, page 29:
- The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
- (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
- 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by shopkeeper and Mr Praline (Michael Palin and John Cleese):
- Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk."
Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords."
Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
- 2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times[3]:
- Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.
- 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club[4], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
- Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
- (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
- 1648, Joseph Hall, “The Breathings of the Devout Soul”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 325:
- Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]pine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “pine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Bih
[edit]Noun
[edit]pine
Further reading
[edit]- Tam Thi Min Nguyen, A grammar of Bih (2013)
Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Via Old Saxon pīna from Medieval Latin pēna (“punishment in hell”), from Latin poena (“punishment”), a loan from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).
Noun
[edit]pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)
Inflection
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German pīnen, derived from the noun.
Verb
[edit]pine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, perfect tense er/har pint)
Synonyms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Originally “pinecone”, from Latin pīnea
Noun
[edit]pine f (plural pines)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]pine
- inflection of piner:
Further reading
[edit]- “pine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]pine
- inflection of pinar:
Italian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pine f
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]pīne
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably English pin
Noun
[edit]pine
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.
Noun
[edit]pine f or m (definite singular pina or pinen, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint)
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.
Noun
[edit]pine f (definite singular pina, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint, passive infinitive pinast, present participle pinande, imperative pin)
References
[edit]- “pine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]pine
- inflection of pinar:
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian pīne, borrowed from Latin pēna, borrowed from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Piene and Dutch pijn.
Noun
[edit]pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)
Further reading
[edit]- “pine”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zazaki
[edit]Noun
[edit]pine
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