pine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tall evergreen tree with long thin needles instead of leaves.

   The mountain slopes were covered in dark green pine.

2. 2
   verb

   To miss someone or something so much that it makes you sad.

   The dog pined for its owner the whole week she was away.

From Middle English pyne, pine, probably from Old English *pīne (“pain”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“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.

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