Define:Pine

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English[eedit soorce]

Pinus brutia (1)

Pronunciation[eedit soorce]

Etymology 1[eedit soorce]

Frae Laitin pīnus, frae Proto-Indo-European *poi- (sap, juice). Cognate wi Sanskrit पितु (pitu, sap, juice, resin).

Noun[eedit soorce]

Pine (countable and uncountable, plural Pines)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable)  Ony tree (uisually coniferous) which resembles a member o this genus in some respect.
  3. (uncountable)  The wid o this tree.
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Etymology 2[eedit soorce]

Old English

, frae *pine “pain”, possibly frae Laitin

, frae Ancient Greek

. Cognate tae

pain

. Entered Germanic wi Christianity; cognate tae Middle Dutch

pinen

, Auld Heich German

pinon

, Auld Norse

pina

.[1]

Noun[eedit soorce]

Pine (plural Pines)

  1. (archaic) A painful langin.
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Verb[eedit soorce]

Pine (third-person singular simple present Pines, present participle pining, simple past an past participle pined)

  1. Tae languish; tae lose flesh or wear away through distress; tae druip.
    • Tickell
      The roses wither an the lilies pine.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) Tae grieve or mourn for.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
  4. (transitive) Tae inflict pain upon; tae torment; tae tortur; tae afflict.
    • Bishop Hall
      One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
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References[eedit soorce]

  1. Pine” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

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Danish[eedit soorce]

Pronunciation[eedit soorce]

  • /piːnə/

Etymology 1[eedit soorce]

Frae Old Saxon

pīna

(late Auld Norse

pina

), frae Medieval Latin

, frae Laitin

poena

, frae Ancient Greek

.

Noun[eedit soorce]

Pine c (singular definite Pinen, plural indefinite Piner)


  1. torment
  2. (in compoonds) ache
Inflection[eedit soorce]
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Etymology 2[eedit soorce]

Derived frae

. Compare Auld Norse

pína

an Middle Low German

pīnen

.

Verb[eedit soorce]

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

  1. torment
  2. tortur
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Italian[eedit soorce]

Noun[eedit soorce]

pine

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Latin[eedit soorce]

Noun[eedit soorce]

pīne

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Maori[eedit soorce]

Etymology[eedit soorce]

Probably Inglis pin

Noun[eedit soorce]

Pine

  1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål[eedit soorce]

Verb[eedit soorce]

Pine (present tense piner; past tense pinte; past participle pint)

  1. tae torment, tae tortur

Norwegian Nynorsk[eedit soorce]

Verb[eedit soorce]

Pine (present tense piner; past tense pinte; past participle pint; passive infinitive Pinast; present participle Pinande; imperative Pin)

  1. tae torment, tae tortur

West Frisian[eedit soorce]

Noun[eedit soorce]

pine

  1. pain, ache