pinus
See also: Pinus
English
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
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.nus/, [ˈpiːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.nus/, [ˈpiːnus]
Noun
pīnus f (variously declined, genitive pīnūs or pīnī); fourth declension, second declension
- pine tree
- pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
- lance, spear
- wreath of pine leaves
- pine forest, pineland
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
Descendants
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.
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Botany
- en:Pines
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin nouns with multiple declensions
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the second declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Conifers
- la:Trees