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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz. Cognate with German Zinne. Compare also the related English tind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n
• Homophone: Tyne

Noun

tine (plural tines)

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,^[1]

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
3. (dialect) A wild vetch or tare.

Translations

See also

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Etymology 2

Unknown origin, possibly related to etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• tyne

Adjective

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)

1. small, diminutive

Derived terms

• tiny

Etymology 3

See teen (“affliction”).

Noun

tine

1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

Etymology 4

See tind.

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To kindle; to set on fire.
   • 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan, from t?n (“enclosure”) (modern town).

Verb

tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)

1. To shut in, or enclose.
   • 1852, Alfred Committee (translator), Alfred the Great, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388:

     When I was then surrounded on every side by the fiends, and tined about by the blindness of the darkness, then hove I my eyes up and looked hither and yond, whether any help were to come to me, that I might be rescued; […]

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Derived terms

• betine

Anagrams

• Tien, neti, nite, tein

Aromanian

Pronoun

tine

1. Alternative form of tini

Irish

Alternative forms

• teine (dated)

Etymology

From Old Irish teine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n??/

Noun

tine f (genitive singular tine or tineadh, nominative plural tinte or tintreacha)

1. fire

Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "tine" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “teine” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 730.
• Entries containing “tine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Noun

t?ne

1. vocative singular of t?nus

Middle English

Determiner

tine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

tine (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þíðna.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tinar/tiner, past tense tina/tinte, past participle tina/tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to thaw

Etymology 2

Through French from Latin tina (“wine-vessel”). Akin to Danish tejne.

Noun

tine f (definite singular tina, indefinite plural tiner, definite plural tinene)

1. a traditional bentwood box

Etymology 3

From Old Norse tína.

Alternative forms

• tina (a-infinitive)

Verb

tine (present tense tiner, past tense tinte, past participle tint, passive infinitive tinast, present participle tinande, imperative tin)

1. to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
2. to remove the awn from the grain
3. to extract a nut from its shell

References

• “tine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• eint, -inet, IT-en, nite, tein, tien, Tine

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin t?, as with mine, sine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti.ne/

Pronoun

tine (stressed accusative form of tu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as pe, cu, la, or pentru) you

Related terms

• te (unstressed form)

See also

• mine
• sine

Yola

Alternative forms

• theene

Etymology

From Middle English tynen, from Old English t?nan.

Verb

tine

1. to shut, close

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Latin tinea (“moth; bookworm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.ni.?/, /?t?.ni.?/

Noun

tinea (countable and uncountable, plural tineas or tineae)

1. (pathology) A fungal infection of the skin, known generally as ringworm.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:

     Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.

Synonyms

• dermatophytosis

Related terms

caused by dermatophytes

• tinea barbae (barber’s itch) – fungal infestation of facial hair
• tinea capitis (scalp ringworm) – fungal infection of the scalp and hair
• tinea corporis – fungal infection of the arms, legs, and trunk
• tinea cruris (jock itch)
• tinea faciei (face fungus)
• tinea manuum – fungal infection of the hands and palms
• tinea pedis (athlete's foot) – fungal infection of the feet
• tinea unguium (fungal infection of the fingernails, toenails, and the nail bed)

of other causes

• tinea nigra – Hortaea werneckii
• tinea versicolor – Malassezia furfur

Translations

Anagrams

• Aitne, Teian, antie, eat in, eat-in, eatin', entia, tenia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh?w- (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ti.ne.a/, [?t??neä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ti.ne.a/, [?t?i?n??]

Noun

tinea f (genitive tineae); first declension

1. a destructive insect larva that attacks household items such as books or clothing; larva, maggot, caterpillar

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

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