propine

See also: propiné

English

Noun

propine (plural propines)

  1. Alternative form of propyne

Etymology 2

Latin propinō, Ancient Greek προπῑ́νω (propī́nō, “to drink to someone's health”).

Verb

propine (third-person singular simple present propines, present participle propining, simple past and past participle propined)

  1. To pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
    • C. Smart
      The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince
      Health, peace, and joy propined.
    • 1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos (page 15)
      He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass,
      Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.
  2. (by extension) To give in token of friendship.
  3. To give, or deliver; to subject.
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Noun

propine (plural propines)

  1. A pledge.
  2. A gift or gratuity.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for propine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Spanish

Verb

propine

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