pinus

pinus (plural pinuses)

1. (botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
   • 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)

     I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.

   • 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)

     As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.

From Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.nus/, [ˈpiː.nʊs]

pīnus f (variously declined, genitive pīnūs or pīnī); fourth declension, second declension

1. pine tree
2. pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
3. lance, spear
4. wreath of pine leaves
5. pine forest, pineland

Fourth-declension noun or second-declension noun.

• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette