dine

dine

See also: Dine, diné, Diné, diñé, dîne, and dîné

English

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:

     A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     What wol ye dine?

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms

• dine and dash
• dine at the Y
• dine in
• dine out
• dine out on
• diner
• dine with Duke Humphrey
• dining
• dinner
• wine and dine

 

Translations

to eat; to eat dinner or supper

Arabic: ليتعشى‎, ليتعشى‎, لاجل العشاء‎ Armenian: ճաշել (hy) (čašel) Aromanian: tsin Basque: afaldu (eu) Belarusian: вячэ́раць impf (vjačéracʹ), павячэ́раць pf (pavjačéracʹ) Bulgarian: обядвам (objadvam), вечерям (večerjam) Catalan: sopar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dalmatian: cenur, prandar Danish: spise (da) Dutch: dineren (nl) Esperanto: vespermanĝi Finnish: illastaa (fi), aterioida (fi) French: dîner (fr) Friulian: cenâ, gustâ Galician: cear (gl) German: speisen (de) Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan) Greek: Ancient: δειπνέω (deipnéō) Hebrew: אכל‎ (he) (akhál), סעד‎ (saád) Hungarian: vacsorázik Ido: dinear (io) Italian: cenare (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: cēnō Lombard: zenà Middle English: dynen Neapolitan: cenà Northern Sami: boradit Occitan: sopar (oc) Polish: jeść obiad (pl), obiadować (pl), jeść kolację (pl) Portuguese: jantar (pt), cear (pt) Romanian: cina (ro), lua cina Romansch: tschanar, tschenar, tschner, tschnar Russian: у́жинать (ru) impf (úžinatʹ), поу́жинать (ru) pf (poúžinatʹ) Sardinian: cenai, chenare, genare Sicilian: cinari Spanish: cenar (es) Thai: ทานอาหาร (taan aa hăan) Turkish: akşam yemeği yemek Ukrainian: вече́ряти impf (večérjaty), повече́ряти pf (povečérjaty) Vietnamese: hàng (vi)

Noun

dine (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) dinnertime

Anagrams

• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• dinne

Pronunciation

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /ˈdinə/

Adverb

dine

1. inside
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I will doch go lose, was sie säge dinne.

     I just want to listen to what they're saying inside.

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Danish

Pronoun

dine

1. (possessive) plural of din

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

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French

Verb

dine

1. inflection of diner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• déni
• Inde

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Middle Dutch

Determiner

dine

1. inflection of dijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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Middle English

Noun

dine

1. Alternative form of dynne

Adjective

dine

1. Alternative form of digne

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere		deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

References

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːnə/

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

References

• “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀤𑀺𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• दिने (Devanagari script)
• দিনে (Bengali script)
• දිනෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဒိနေ or ၻိၼေ (Burmese script)
• ทิเน (Thai script)
• ᨴᩥᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ທິເນ (Lao script)
• ទិនេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄨𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

dine

1. locative singular of dina (“day”)

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• dini
• rine
• rini

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di‧ne
• IPA^(key): /ˈdine/, [ˈdi.ne]

Adverb

dine

1. (dialectal) here (near the speaker)

   Synonym: dito

Usage notes

• When the preceding word ends with a vowel, "w", or "y", rine is used instead.

Derived terms

• dumine
• nandine
• narine
• naririne
• naririne
• pagparine
• parine
• pumarine

 

See also

Tagalog demonstrative pronouns

	Direct (ang)	Indirect (ng)	Oblique (sa)	Locative (nasa)	Existential	Manner (gaya ng)
Near speaker*	ari/are, iri/ire, yari**	nire/niri, niyari**	dine/dini	nandine	ere/eri, here/heri, ayri	ganire/ganiri, gayari
Near speaker and listener	ito	nito	dito, rito	nandito, narito	heto, eto, ayto**	ganito
Near listener	iyan	niyan	diyan, riyan	nandiyan, nariyan	hayan, ayan	ganiyan/ganyan
Remote	iyon, yaon**	niyon, noon, niyaon**	doon, roon	nandoon, naroon	hayon/hayun, ayon/ayun	ganoon, garoon, gayon**
*This series, for the most part, is not used anymore by most Tagalog speakers. Instead, the pronoun in the second row are used. **These pronouns are not commonly used in casual speech but more prevalent in literature.

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Turkish

Noun

dīne

1. dative singular of din