dine

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/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
2. (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.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.

Synonyms

• dinner

Derived terms

• dine and dash
• dine at the Y
• dine-in
• dine in
• dine on ashes
• dine out
• dine out on
• diner
• dine with Duke Humphrey
• dining
• wine and dine

 

Related terms

• dinner

Translations

to eat; to eat dinner or supper

• Arabic: ليتعشى, ليتعشى, لاجل العشاء
• Armenian: ճաշել (hy) (čašel)
• Aromanian: tsin
• Basque: afaldu (eu)
• Belarusian: вячэ́раць impf (vjačéracʹ), павячэ́раць pf (pavjačéracʹ)
• Bulgarian: обядвам (objadvam), вечерям (večerjam)
• Catalan: sopar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dalmatian: cenur, prandar
• Danish: spise (da)
• Dutch: dineren (nl)
• Esperanto: vespermanĝi
• Finnish: illastaa (fi), aterioida (fi)
• French: dîner (fr)
• Friulian: cenâ, gustâ
• Galician: cear (gl)
• German: speisen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: δεῖπνον αἱρέω (deîpnon hairéō), δόρπον αἱρέω (dórpon hairéō)

  Ancient: δειπνέω (deipnéō)

• Hebrew: אכל (he) (akhál), סעד (saád)
• Hungarian: vacsorázik (hu)
• Ido: dinear (io)
• Italian: cenare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: cēnō (la)
• Lombard: zenà
• Middle English: dynen
• Neapolitan: cenà
• Northern Sami: boradit
• Occitan: sopar (oc)
• Polish: jeść obiad (pl), obiadować (pl), jeść kolację (pl)
• Portuguese: jantar (pt), cear (pt)
• Romanian: cina (ro), lua cina
• Romansch: tschanar, tschenar, tschner, tschnar
• Russian: у́жинать (ru) impf (úžinatʹ), поу́жинать (ru) pf (poúžinatʹ)
• Sardinian: cenai, chenare, genare
• Sicilian: cinari
• Spanish: cenar (es)
• Thai: ทานอาหาร (taan aa hăan)
• Turkish: akşam yemeği yemek
• Ukrainian: вече́ряти impf (večérjaty), повече́ряти pf (povečérjaty)
• Vietnamese: hàng (vi)

Noun

dine (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Dinnertime.

Anagrams

• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• dinne

Pronunciation

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /ˈdinə/

Adverb

dine

1. 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

1. (possessive) plural of din

See also

Danish personal pronouns

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	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		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

French

Verb

dine

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

Anagrams

• déni
• Inde

Middle Dutch

Determiner

dine

1. inflection of dijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dine

1. Alternative form of dynne

Etymology 2

Adjective

dine

1. Alternative form of digne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

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

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːnə/

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

References

• “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 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

1. locative singular of dina (“day”)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdine/, [ˈdi.nɛ]
• Hyphenation: di‧ne

Adverb

dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)

1. Alternative form of dini

See also

Tagalog demonstrative pronouns

	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.

Turkish

Noun

dīne

1. dative singular of din