tine

See also: Tine and ține

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tine, alteration of Middle English tinde, tind, from Old English tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz. Cognate with German Zinne. Compare also the related English tind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

tine (plural tines)

1. A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 9, pp. 45-46,^[1]

     Sitting at the table one day, I held the fork in my left hand and pierced a piece of fried chicken. I put the knife through the second tine, as we had been strictly taught, and began to saw against the bone.

2. A small branch, especially on an antler or horn.
3. (dialect) A wild vetch or tare.

Translations

prong

• Dutch: punt (nl) m
• Finnish: piikki (fi)
• French: dent (fr) m, fourchon (fr) m
• German: Zinke (de) f, Pickel (de) m, Dorn (de) m, Zacke (de) f, Zahn (de) m, Zinken (de) m, Stift (de) m, Zacken (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: στόρθυγξ m or f (stórthunx)

• Icelandic: tönn (is) f
• Italian: rebbio (it) m, dente (it) m, punta (it) f
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• Maori: kātara
• Norwegian: tann f/m
• Old English: tind m
• Portuguese: dente (pt) m
• Russian: зубе́ц (ru) m (zubéc)
• Spanish: diente (es) m, púa f (on a pitchfork)
• Swedish: tand (sv) c
• Volapük: (fork) fokatuit

on antler

• Finnish: haara (fi)
• French: andouiller (fr) m
• German: Ende (de) n, Sprosse (de) f, Sprießel m
• Greek:

  Ancient: στόρθυγξ m or f (stórthunx)

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• Italian: ramificazione corna cervidi
• Swedish: tagg (sv) c
• Volapük: tuit (vo)

See also

• prong
• tooth
• tool

Etymology 2

Unknown origin, possibly related to etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• tyne

Adjective

tine (comparative tiner, superlative tinest)

1. small, diminutive

Derived terms

• tiny

Etymology 3

See teen (“affliction”).

Noun

tine

1. (obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     As wither'd Weed through cruel Winter's Tine

Etymology 4

See tind.

Verb

1. To kindle; to set on fire.
   • 1700, John Dryden, The First Book of Homer's Ilias:

     The priest with holy hands was seen to tine / The cloven wood, and pour the ruddy wine.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd.

2. (obsolete) To rage; to smart.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Ne was there salve, ne was there medicine, / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

Etymology 5

From Old English tȳnan, from tūn (“enclosure”) (modern town).

Verb

1. To shut in, or enclose.

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Derived terms

• betine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tien, neti, nite, tein

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Aromanian

Pronoun

tine

1. Alternative form of tini

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Irish

Alternative forms

• teine (dated)

Etymology

From Old Irish teine, from Proto-Celtic *teɸnets (“fire”) (compare Breton and Cornish tan, Welsh tân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɪnʲə/

Noun

tine f (genitive singular tine or tineadh, nominative plural tinte or tintreacha)

1. fire

Declension

Standard inflection (fourth declension):

Declension of tine

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tine tinte Vocative a thine a thinte Genitive tine tinte Dative tine tinte

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tine na tinte Genitive na tine na dtinte Dative leis an tine don tine leis na tinte

Alternative inflection (fifth declension):

Declension of tine

Fifth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tine tinte Vocative a thine a thinte Genitive tineadh tinte Dative tine tinidh (archaic, dialectal) tinte

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tine na tinte Genitive na tineadh na dtinte Dative leis an tine leis an tinidh (archaic, dialectal) don tine don tinidh (archaic, dialectal) leis na tinte

• Alternative plural: tintreacha (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

• le thine (“on fire”)
• lus tine m (“fire-weed, rose-bay willow-herb”)
• tine ealaíne (“firework”)
• tine leictreach (“electric fire”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tine	thine	dtine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teine”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 730
• Entries containing “tine” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tine” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) tīne

1. vocative singular of tīnus

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Middle English

Determiner

tine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin.

Pronoun

tine (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin.

References

• “thin, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

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Norwegian

Verb

tine

1. thaw

Noun

tine m

1. Traditional bentwood box

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tē, as with mine, sine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ne/

Pronoun

tine (stressed accusative form of tu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") you

   te iubesc pe tine - I love you

Related terms

• te (unstressed form)

See also

• mine
• sine