pine

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English[edit]

WOTD – 14 December 2011

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Etymology 1[edit]

a Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) (1)

From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”). Doublet of pinus. Related to fat.

Noun[edit]

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) 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?
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English pine, pyne, from Old English *pīn (“pain”), from Proto-Germanic *pīnō (“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[edit]

pine (plural pines)

  1. (archaic) A painful longing.
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Etymology 3[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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 (lyrics and music), “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:)
  4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
    Synonyms: torment, torture, afflict
    • 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[edit]

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams[edit]

Bih[edit]

Noun[edit]

pine

  1. woman, girl

Further reading[edit]

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

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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”).

Noun[edit]

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

  1. torment
  2. (in compounds) ache
Inflection[edit]
Declension of pine
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pine pinen piner pinerne
genitive pines pinens piners pinernes

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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

  1. torment
  2. torture
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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Originally “pinecone”, from Latin pīnea

Noun[edit]

pine f (plural pines)

  1. (slang) nob, penis

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

pine

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

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Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

pine

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

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

pine f

  1. plural of pina

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

pīne

  1. vocative singular of pīnus

Maori[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably English pin

Noun[edit]

pine

  1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun[edit]

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

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. to torment, to torture

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun[edit]

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

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Verb[edit]

pine

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

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

  1. pain, ache

Further reading[edit]

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

Zazaki[edit]

Noun[edit]

pine

  1. patch
  2. (computing) patch
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