confine

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin confīnis.

• (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪn/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfaɪn/
  • (US) enPR: känʹfīn, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnfaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

1. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

2. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

confine (plural confines)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

• (limit): border, bound, limit

• confineless

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fin/
• Homophones: confinent, confines

confine

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

From Latin confīnis.

confine m (plural confini)

1. border, frontier
2. boundary

• limite

• confinante
• confinare
• confinario
• confino

confīne

1. nominative neuter singular of confīnis
2. accusative neuter singular of confīnis
3. vocative neuter singular of confīnis

confine

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

confine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of confinar.