pinaster

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Pinus pinaster

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin pīnaster (“a wild pine”).

Pronunciation edit

Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun edit

pinaster (plural pinasters)

A maritime pine (species Pinus pinaster), that grows in southern Europe.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “pinaster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Painters, Parentis, painters, pantries, pertains, pine tars, pristane, repaints, star pine, terapins

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From pīn(us) (“pine”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈnas.ter/, [piːˈnäs̠t̪ɛr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈnas.ter/, [piˈnäst̪er]

Noun edit

pīnaster m (genitive pīnastrī); second declension

a wild pine. probably Pinus pinaster

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pīnaster	pīnastrī
Genitive	pīnastrī	pīnastrōrum
Dative	pīnastrō	pīnastrīs
Accusative	pīnastrum	pīnastrōs
Ablative	pīnastrō	pīnastrīs
Vocative	pīnaster	pīnastrī

References edit

“pinaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pinaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.