different between pines vs pinus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?nz/

Noun

pines

1. plural of pine

Verb

pines

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pine

Anagrams

• Espin, Snipe, epsin, penis, snipe, spine

Danish

Noun

pines c

1. indefinite genitive singular of pine

Verb

pines

1. present passive of pine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pin/
• Homophones: pine, pinent

Verb

pines

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of piner

Anagrams

• peins, pénis

Portuguese

Verb

pines

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of pinar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of pinar

English

Etymology

From the genus name. Doublet of pine.

Noun

pinus (plural pinuses)

1. (botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
   • 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)

     I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.

   • 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)

     As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.nus/, [?pi?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.nus/, [?pi?nus]

Noun

p?nus f (variously declined, genitive p?n?s or p?n?); fourth declension, second declension

1. pine tree
2. pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
3. lance, spear
4. wreath of pine leaves
5. pine forest, pineland

Declension

Fourth-declension noun or second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette