pineとは

発音

a Turkish pine (Pinus brutia) (1)

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /paɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn

語源 1

From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”).

名詞

pine (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pines)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
4. (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.

同意語

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

派生語

語源 2

From 古期英語 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]

名詞

pine (複数形 pines)

1. (archaic) A painful longing.

動詞

pine (三人称単数 現在形 pines, 現在分詞 pining, 過去形および過去分詞形 pined)

1. To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem; to think something over.
2. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
   • Tickell

     The roses wither and the lilies pine.

3. (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^[2], →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.

4. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

5. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
   • Bishop Hall

     One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

派生語

• pine away

参照

アナグラム

• pein

Latin

名詞

pīne

1. vocative singular of pīnus