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Yes. The word pine is a Scrabble US word. The word pine is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

PEIN,PENI,PINE,

3-letter words (6 found)

NEP,NIE,NIP,PEN,PIE,PIN,

2-letter words (5 found)

EN,IN,NE,PE,PI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from pine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pine

pine ipne pnie npie inpe nipe pien ipen pein epin iepn eipn pnei npei peni epni nepi enpi inep niep ienp einp neip enip

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Definitions and meaning of pine

pine

Alternative forms

  • pyne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General American) IPA(key): /paɪn/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyne, from Latin pīnus, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”). Doublet of pinus. Related to fat.

Noun

pine (countable and uncountable, plural pines)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
    Synonyms: pine tree, pinus
  2. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  3. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
    Synonym: pinewood
  4. (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa) A pineapple.
  5. (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pine, pyne, from Old English *pīn (“pain”), from Proto-Germanic *pīnō (“pain, torment, torture”), possibly from Latin poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Cognate to pain.

Entered Germanic with Christianity; cognate to Middle Dutch pinen, Old High German pīnōn, Old Norse pína.

Noun

pine (plural pines)

  1. (archaic) A painful longing.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pinen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-Germanic *pīnōną, from Proto-Germanic *pīnō (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).

Verb

pine (third-person singular simple present pines, present participle pining, simple past and past participle pined)

  1. (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
    Synonyms: languish, droop
    • 1855, John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
      Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
  2. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
    Synonyms: long, yearn
  3. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
  4. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.
    Synonyms: torment, torture, afflict
Derived terms
  • pine away
  • pining stool
Translations

Further reading

  • pine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “pine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “pine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

References

Anagrams

  • pein

Bih

Noun

pine

  1. woman, girl

Further reading

  • Tam Thi Min Nguyen, A grammar of Bih (2013)

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʰiːnə]

Etymology 1

Via Old Saxon pīna from Medieval Latin pēna (“punishment in hell”), from Latin poena (“punishment”), a loan from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

Noun

pine c (singular definite pinen, plural indefinite piner)

  1. torment
  2. (in compounds) ache
Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Low German pīnen, derived from the noun.

Verb

pine (imperative pin, infinitive at pine, present tense piner, past tense pinte, perfect tense er/har pint)

  1. torment
  2. torture
Synonyms
  • martre
  • nage
  • plage

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pin/

Etymology 1

Originally “pinecone”, from Latin pīnea

Noun

pine f (plural pines)

  1. (slang) nob, penis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pine

  1. inflection of piner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “pine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

pine

  1. inflection of pinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: pì‧ne

Noun

pine f

  1. plural of pina

Anagrams

  • peni

Latin

Noun

pīne

  1. vocative singular of pīnus

Maori

Etymology

Probably English pin

Noun

pine

  1. pin, tack, brooch

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun

pine f or m (definite singular pina or pinen, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

  • hodepine
  • tannpine
  • ørepine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint)

  1. to torment, to torture

References

  • “pine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “pine” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pína, from Latin poena.

Noun

pine f (definite singular pina, indefinite plural piner, definite plural pinene)

  1. pain, torment, torture

Derived terms

  • hovudpine
  • tannpine

Verb

pine (present tense piner, past tense pinte, past participle pint, passive infinitive pinast, present participle pinande, imperative pin)

  1. to torment, to torture

References

  • “pine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

pine

  1. inflection of pinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian pīne, borrowed from Latin pēna, borrowed from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Piene and Dutch pijn.

Noun

pine c (plural pinen, diminutive pyntsje)

  1. pain, ache

Further reading

  • “pine”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zazaki

Noun

pine

  1. patch
  2. (computing) patch

Source: wiktionary.org