pinea

Latin

Etymology 1

From pīneus.

Adjective

pīnea

1. inflection of pīneus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

pīneā

1. ablative feminine singular of pīneus

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of nux pīnea (“pine nut”).

Noun

pīnea f (genitive pīneae); first declension

1. pine cone
2. pine nut

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pīnea	pīneae
Genitive	pīneae	pīneārum
Dative	pīneae	pīneīs
Accusative	pīneam	pīneās
Ablative	pīneā	pīneīs
Vocative	pīnea	pīneae

Descendants

• Catalan: pinya
• → English: pineal
• Galician: piña
• Italian: pigna
• Portuguese: pinha
• Spanish: piña

References

• “pinea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pinea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pinea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.