Pine

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /paɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

From Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *poi- ("sap, juice"). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु ("sap, juice, resin")

Full definition of pine

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, 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, The China Governess Chapter 3, 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. The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
3. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
4. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
5. (archaic) A pineapple.

Synonyms

• (tree of genus Pinus) pine tree
• (wood) pinewood

Derived terms

• bunya pine
• hoop pine
• Huon pine
• jack pine
• Norfolk Island pine
• pineal
• pineapple
• pine beetle
• pine bunting
• pinecone, pine cone
• pine mushroom
• pine needle
• pine nut
• pine shoot moth
• pine squirrel
• pine tar
• pine tree
• pine vole
• stone pine
• white pine
• Wollemi pine
• yellow pine

Old English pinian ("torment"),

from *pine “pain”, possibly from Latin poena ("punishment"),

from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinē, "penalty, fine, bloodmoney"). Cognate to pain.

Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pinon, Old Norse pina.

Online Etymology Dictionary

Noun

1. (archaic) A painful longing.

Verb

1. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
• TickellThe roses wither and the lilies pine.
2. (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, 1847Long 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 Chapter , The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
• Bishop HallOne is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

Anagrams

• pein