pine
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”).
Noun
pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)
- (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.
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- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.
Derived terms
- ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- arolla pine (Pinus cembra)
- Austrian pine (Pinus nigra)
- black pine
- Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii)
- Brazilian pine (Araucaria angustifolia)
- bristlecone pine (Pinus subsect. Balfourianae spp.)
- bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii)
- Chile pine/Chilean pine (Araucaria araucana)
- cypress pine
- digger pine (Pinus sabiniana)
- fern pine
- grey pine (Pinus banksiana)
- ground pine
- Guadalupe pine (Pinus radiata var. binata)
- hard pine
- hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii)
- horsetail pine (Pinus massoniana)
- Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii)
- insignis pine (Pinus radiata)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi)
- joint pine
- King Billy pine/King William pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides)
- klinki pine (Araucaria hunsteinii)
- Lambert pine (Pinus lambertiana)
- loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
- longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)
- maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)
- Monterey pine (Pinus radiata)
- mountain pine (Pinus mugo)
- mugo pine (Pinus mugo)
- Norfolk Island pine/Norfolk pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
- Norway pine (Pinus resinosa)
- nut pine
- Parana pine/Paraná pine (Araucaria angustifolia)
- pencil pine
- pineal
- pineapple
- pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.)
- pine bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos)
- Pine City
- pinecone, pine cone
- Pine County
- pinedrops (Pterospora andromedea)
- pinefinch
- pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens)
- pine marten (Martes martes)
- pine mushroom (Tricholoma magnivelare)
- pine needle
- pine nut
- pinesap (Monotropa hypopitys)
- pine shoot moth (Rhyacionia buoliana)
- pine squirrel (Tamiasciurus spp.)
- pine tar
- pine thistle (Carlina gummifera)
- pine tree (Pinus spp.)
- pine vole (Microtus pinetorum)
- pineweed (Hypericum sarothra)
- pine weevil (Hylobius abietis)
- pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata)
- piñon pine (Pinus subsect. Cembroides)
- pitch pine
- plum pine (Podocarpaceae spp.)
- prince's pine (Chimaphila umbellata)
- radiata pine (Pinus radiata)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- Scotch pine/Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
- screw pine (Pandanus)
- scrub pine (Pinus banksiana)
- shore pine (Pinus contorta)
- shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata)
- silver pine (Manoao colensoi)
- soft pine
- star pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
- stone pine (Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra}
- sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
- swamp pine
- Swiss pine (Pinus cembra)
- Turkish pine (Pinus brutia)
- umbrella pine (Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra}
- white pine (Pinus subg. Strobus spp.)
- Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)
- yellow pine
- yew pine
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Etymology 2
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]
Translations
Verb
pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)
- To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem; to think something over.
- To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
- Tickell
- The roses wither and the lilies pine.
- Tickell
- (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.
- (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
- Bishop Hall
- One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
- Bishop Hall
Derived terms
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References
- “pine” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piːnə/, [ˈpʰiːnə], [ˈpʰiːn̩]
Etymology 1
From Old Saxon pīna (late Old Norse pína), from Medieval Latin pēna (“punishment”), from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).
Inflection
Etymology 2
Derived from pine (“torment”). Compare Old Norse pína and Middle Low German pīnen.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pin/
Verb
pine
Further reading
- “pine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).