dine
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dine"
English
Etymology
From Middle English dynen, 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/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
Verb
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) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:
- Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
- 2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 328:
- I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
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Noun
dine (uncountable)
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Adverb
dine
- 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.
Danish
Pronoun
dine
See also
| 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 (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common (noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | |||||
| indefinite | man | en | ens | ||||
| 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 | |||||
Danish personal pronouns
French
Verb
dine
- inflection of diner:
Anagrams
Middle Dutch
Determiner
dine
- inflection of dijn:
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
dine
- Alternative form of dynne
Etymology 2
Adjective
dine
- Alternative form of digne
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dine pl
See also
| 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 | ||
References
- “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dine pl
References
- “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀤𑀺𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- दिने (Devanagari script)
- দিনে (Bengali script)
- දිනෙ (Sinhalese script)
- ဒိနေ or ၻိၼေ (Burmese script)
- ทิเน (Thai script)
- ᨴᩥᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ທິເນ (Lao script)
- ទិនេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄘𑄨𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
dine
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdine/ [ˈd̪iː.n̪ɛ]
- Rhymes: -ine
- Syllabification: di‧ne
Adverb
dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)
- Alternative form of dini
See also
| Direct (ang) | Indirect (ng) | Oblique (sa) | Locative (nasa) | Existential | Manner (gaya ng) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near speaker* | ari/are, iri/ire/idi, yari** | nari/nare, niri/nire/nidi, niyari† | dini/dine | nandini, narini, nairi/naidi, naari | ere/eri, here/heri, ayri | ganari, ganiri, garini(garni), gayari† |
| Near speaker and listener* | ito | nito | dito | nandito, narito, naito** | heto, eto, ayto† | ganito, garito(garto)** |
| Near listener | iyan, yaan | niyan | diyan/diyaan | nandiyan/nandiyaan, nariyan(naryan), nayan/nayaan**, naiyan‡ | hayan, ayan | ganiyan(ganyan), gay-an**, gariyan** |
| Remote | iyon, yoon, yaon† | niyon, noon, niyaon† | doon | nandoon, naron/naroon**, nayon/nayoon**, nayaon‡ | hayon/hayun, ayon/ayun | ganoon, gayon, gay-on, gayoon‡,garoon‡ |
| *These two series have merged in modern Tagalog. The first row is used in some dialects, the second row is used anywhere else. **These pronouns are used in some dialects. †These pronouns are not commonly used in casual speech but more prevalent in literature. ‡Rare in text. | ||||||
Tagalog demonstrative pronouns
Turkish
Noun
dīne
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