tine

From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz. Cognate with German Zinne. Compare also the related English tind.

• IPA^(key): /taɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

tine (plural tines)

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
3. (dialectal) A wild vetch or tare.

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Unknown origin, possibly related to etymology 1.

• tyne

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)

1. small, diminutive

• tiny

See teen (“affliction”).

tine

1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

See tind.

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To kindle; to set on fire.
   • 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

From Old English tȳnan, from tūn (“enclosure”) (modern town).

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To shut in, or enclose.

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• betine

• Tien, neti, nite, tein

tine

1. Alternative form of tini

• teine (dated)

From Old Irish teine, from Proto-Celtic *teɸnets (“fire”) (compare Breton and Cornish tan, Welsh tân).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɪnʲə/

tine f (genitive singular tine or tineadh, nominative plural tinte or tintreacha)

1. fire

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

• "tine" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 teine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “teine” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 730.
• Entries containing “tine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

tine

1. vocative singular of tinus

tine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin.

tine (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin.

• “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

tine

1. thaw

tine m

1. Traditional bentwood box

From Latin tē, as with mine, sine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ne/

tine (stressed accusative form of tu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") you

   te iubesc pe tine - I love you

• te (unstressed form)

• mine
• sine