dine
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
- (intransitive) to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
- What wol ye dine? — Chaucer.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Pronoun [edit]
dine
- (possessive) Plural form of din
See also [edit]
Danish personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Inflection | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Reflexive | Reflexive possessive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | common | jeg | mig | min | ||
| neuter | mit | ||||||
| plural | mine | ||||||
| Second | common | du | dig | din | |||
| neuter | dit | ||||||
| plural | dine | ||||||
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine | han | ham | hans | sig | sin | |
| feminine | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common | den | den | dens | ||||
| neuter | det | det | dets | sit | |||
| plural | sine | ||||||
| Plural | First | — | vi | os | vores | ||
| common | vor | ||||||
| neuter | vort | ||||||
| plural | vore | ||||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | sig | ||
French [edit]
Verb [edit]
dine
- first-person singular present indicative of diner
- third-person singular present indicative of diner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of diner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of diner
- second-person singular imperative of diner
Anagrams [edit]
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse þínir.
Pronoun [edit]
dine pl
- plural of din
References [edit]
- “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse þínir.
Pronunciation [edit]
Pronoun [edit]
dine pl
- plural of din
References [edit]
- “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Turkish [edit]
Noun [edit]
dīne
- dative singular form of din
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English verbs
- English terms with obsolete senses
- Danish pronouns
- French verb forms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål pronouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk pronouns
- Turkish noun forms
