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See also: Pine and piné

English

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WOTD – 14 December 2011

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Etymology 1

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    a Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) (1)

    From Middle English pyne, from Old English *pīne, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā, from Latin pīnus, see there for more. Doublet of pinus. Possibly related to fat.

    Noun

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    pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

    1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
      Synonyms: pine tree, pinus
      The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
      • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
        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, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:
        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.
    2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
    3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
      Synonym: pinewood
    4. (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
    5. (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
      • 2013, Sam Zygner, The Forgotten Marlins, page 287:
        […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.
      • 2019, Martin Copeland, The Boys from Dogtown:
        Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?
    6. (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
      I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!
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    Etymology 2

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      From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), 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 pīnōn, Old Norse pína.[1]

      Noun

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      pine (plural pines)

      1. (archaic) A painful longing.
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      Etymology 3

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        From Middle English pynen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).

        Verb

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        pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

        1. (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
          Synonyms: languish, droop
          • c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
            Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
          • 1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, pages 299–300:
            [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
          • 170?, Thomas Tickell, To a Lady; With a Present of Flowers:
            This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
          • 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[1], →ISBN, page 29:
            The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
          • 2001 May 15, Tool, “Reflection” (track 11), in Lateralus‎[2]:
            Before I pine away (Pine away)
        2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
          Synonyms: long, yearn
          Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
          • 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by shopkeeper and Mr Praline (Michael Palin and John Cleese):
            Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk."
            Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords."
            Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
          • 2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
            Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.
          • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club‎[4], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
            Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
        3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
          (Can we add an example for this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
          Synonyms: bewail, lament; see also Thesaurus:lament
        4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
          Synonyms: afflict, torment, torture; see also Thesaurus:hurt
          • 1648, Joseph Hall, “The Breathings of the Devout Soul”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 325:
            Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.
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        References

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        1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “pine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

        Anagrams

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        Bih

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        Etymology

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        Inherited from Proto-Chamic *binay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi ~ *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

        Noun

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        pine

        1. woman, girl

        Further reading

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

        Danish

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        Etymology 1

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        Via Old Saxon pīna from Medieval Latin pēna (“punishment in hell”), from Latin poena (“punishment”), a loan from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

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        pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

        1. torment
        2. (in compounds) ache
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        Declension of pine
        common
        gender         		singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative pine pinen piner pinerne
        genitive pines pinens piners pinernes

        Etymology 2

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        Borrowed from Middle Low German pīnen, derived from the noun.

        Verb

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

        1. torment
        2. torture

        Conjugation

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        Conjugation of pine
        active passive
        present piner pines
        past pinte pintes
        infinitive pine pines
        imperative pin —
        participle
        present pinende
        past pint
        (auxiliary verb have)
        gerund pinen

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        French

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        Etymology 1

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        Originally “pinecone”, from Latin pīnea

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        pine f (plural pines)

        1. (slang) nob, penis

        Etymology 2

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        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

        Verb

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        pine

        1. inflection of piner:
          1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
          2. second-person singular imperative

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        Galician

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        Verb

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        pine

        1. inflection of pinar:
          1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
          2. third-person singular imperative

        Italian

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        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ne/
        • Rhymes: -ine
        • Hyphenation: pì‧ne

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        pine f

        1. plural of pina

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        Kongo

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from French pneu.

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        pine

        1. tire

        Latin

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        Noun

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        pīne

        1. vocative singular of pīnus

        Lingala

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Kongo pine.

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        pine

        1. tire

        Māori

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        Etymology

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        Probably English pin

        Noun

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        pine

        1. pin, tack, brooch

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        • “pine” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

        Middle English

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        Noun

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        pine

        1. alternative form of pyne (“pain, torture”)

        Etymology 2

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        Noun

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        pine

        1. alternative form of pyne (“pine tree”)

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        Verb

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        pine

        1. alternative form of pynen (“to injure”)

        Norwegian Bokmål

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        Etymology

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        From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

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

        1. pain, torment, torture

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

        1. to torment, to torture

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        Etymology

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        From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

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

        1. pain, torment, torture

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

        1. to torment, to torture

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        Portuguese

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        Verb

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        pine

        1. inflection of pinar:
          1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
          2. third-person singular imperative

        West Frisian

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        Etymology

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        From Old Frisian pīne, borrowed from Latin pēna, borrowed from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Piene and Dutch pijn.

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        pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

        1. pain, ache

        Further reading

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

        Zazaki

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        Noun

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        pine

        1. patch
        2. (computing) patch
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