pinus
See also: Pinus
English
Etymology
From the genus name. Doublet of pine.
Noun
pinus (plural pinuses)
- (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.
- 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)
Latin
pīnus (a pine)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.nus/, [ˈpiːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.nus/, [ˈpiːnus]
Noun
pīnus f (variously declined, genitive pīnūs or pīnī); fourth declension, second declension
- pine tree, fir tree
- pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
- lance, spear
- wreath of pine leaves
- pine forest, pineland
- Synonym: pinetum
Declension
Fourth-declension noun or second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pīnus | pīnūs pīnī |
| Genitive | pīnūs pīnī | pīnuum pīnōrum |
| Dative | pīnuī pīnō | pīnibus pīnīs |
| Accusative | pīnum | pīnūs pīnōs |
| Ablative | pīnū pīnō | pīnibus pīnīs |
| Vocative | pīnus pīne | pīnūs pīnī |
Derived terms
- pīnastellus
- pīnaster
- pīnea
- pīnētum
- pīneum
- pīneus
- pīnifer
- pīniger
Descendants
- Aragonese: pino
- Aromanian: chin
- Asturian: pinu
- Corsican: pinu
- French: pin
- Friulian: pin
- Galician: piño
- Italian: pino
- Old Occitan: pin
- Catalan: pi
- Occitan: pin
- Portuguese: pinho
- Romanian: pin
- Romansch: pin, pegn
- Sardinian: opinu
- Sicilian: pignu
- Spanish: pino
- Translingual: Pinus
- Venetian: pin
- → Basque: pinu
- → Proto-West Germanic: *pīnā (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: péine, pín
- → Welsh: pin
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette