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tine
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)
- 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.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,[1]
- A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
- (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)
- small, diminutive
Derived terms
- tiny
Etymology 3
See teen (“affliction”).
Noun
tine
- (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
Etymology 4
See tind.
Verb
tine (third-person singular simple present tines, present participle tining, simple past and past participle tined)
- 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.
- 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:
- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
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)
- 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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- 1852, Alfred Committee (translator), Alfred the Great, The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, volume II, page 388:
Derived terms
- betine
Anagrams
- Tien, neti, nite, tein
Aromanian
Pronoun
tine
- 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)
- 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
- vocative singular of t?nus
Middle English
Determiner
tine (subjective pronoun þou)
- (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)
Pronoun
tine (subjective þou)
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- to pluck or rattle to remove fish from a fishing net
- to remove the awn from the grain
- 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)
- (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
- 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
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tined
English
Etymology
tine +? -ed
Adjective
tined (not comparable)
- Furnished with tines.
- a three-tined fork
Translations
Anagrams
- denti-, detin, ident, indet., teind, tiend
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