dine

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

English

Etymology

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/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
   • (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     What wol ye dine?

Related terms

• dine at the Y
• dine out
• diner
• dining
• dinner

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: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: illastaa (fi), aterioida (fi)
• French: dîner (fr)
• Friulian: cenâ, gustâ
• Galician: cear (gl)
• German: speisen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: δειπνέω (deipnéō)

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• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: dinear (io)
• Italian: cenare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: cēnō
• Occitan: sopar (oc)
• Polish: jeść obiad (pl), obiadować (pl), jeść kolację (pl)
• Portuguese: jantar (pt)
• Romanian: cina (ro)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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. first-person singular present indicative of diner
2. third-person singular present indicative of diner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of diner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of diner
5. second-person singular imperative of diner

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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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

References

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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	general	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
		formal (rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	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	general	dere		deres
		formal (very rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

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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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Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdi.nɛ/

Adverb

dine

1. (Batangas) here

Synonyms

• (Manila, Standard Tagalog) dito

Derived terms

• parine
• narine

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Turkish

Noun

dīne

1. dative singular of din