pineus Latin · revision 33033

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la pīnus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpiː.ne.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpiː.ne.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pīneus''' (feminine pīnea, neuter pīneum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pīnus|-eus|t1=pine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan finds several possible etymologies for that noun, comparing [[grc|πίναξ|tr=pínax|t=board, plank]] or [[grc|πίτυς|tr=pítus|t=pine]] and [[sq|pishë]], and thinks it may well be a non-Indo-European tree name.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of stakes of pinewood.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of the pine tree, as Celsus' pine resin, consisting of or covered with pines, as Cornelius Severus' pine foliage on the Apennines and Virgil's pine forest, and like a pine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means made of pinewood: Virgil has a fire of pine and calls the wooden horse at Troy the pine enclosure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in Cato, Varro, Catullus, Lucretius and Virgil, and often in the poets and technical writers.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of pine stakes.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of pine wreaths.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of pine forests and the wooden horse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of pine resin.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the [[m|en|pine]] tree; covered with pines; like a pine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Made of pinewood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pīnea]]

+ * [[pīneum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pinus|alt=pīnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}