pine

a Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) (1)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /paɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

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

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.

• (tree of genus Pinus): pine tree
• (wood): pinewood

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]

pine (plural pines)

1. (archaic) A painful longing.

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.

• pine away

• pein

pine

1. woman, girl

• Tam Thi Min Nguyen, A grammar of Bih (2013)

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

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

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

1. torment
2. (in compounds) ache

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

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

1. torment
2. torture

• martre
• nage
• plage

• IPA^(key): /pin/

pine f (plural pines)

1. (slang) nob, penis

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

• “pine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

pine f

1. plural of pina

• peni

pīne

1. vocative singular of pīnus

Probably English pin

pine

1. pin, tack, brooch

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

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

1. pain, torment, torture

• hodepine
• tannpine
• ørepine

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

1. to torment, to torture

• “pine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena

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

1. pain, torment, torture

• tannpine

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

1. to torment, to torture

• “pine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

1. pain, ache

• “pine”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

pine

1. patch
2. (computing) patch