pinus

See also: Pinus

English

From the genus name. Doublet of pine.

pinus (plural pinuses)

(botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
- 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine, page 420:
  I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.
- 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter, page 265:
  As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.

From Proto-Italic *pīnos, of disputed origin, with multiple theories proposed:^[1]

From the same origin as Ancient Greek πῐ́νᾰξ (pínax, “wooden board, plank”).
From the same origin as Ancient Greek πίτῠς (pítus, “pine tree”) and Albanian pishë (“id”), which is generally reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts.
Related to pix (“pitch, tar”), itself generally considered of the same origin as the second etymology above.

See also Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”).

pīnus f (variously declined, genitive pīnūs or pīnī); fourth declension, second declension

Aragonese: pino
Aromanian: chin
Asturian: pinu
Corsican: pinu
French: pin
Friulian: pin
Italian: pino
Old Galician-Portuguese: pinho, pino (archaic)
- Fala: pinu
- Galician: piño
- Portuguese: pinho
Old Occitan: pin
- Catalan: pi
- Occitan: pin
Romanian: pin
Romansch: pin, pegn
Sardinian: opinu
Sicilian: pignu
Spanish: pino
Translingual: Pinus
Venetan: pin
→ Basque: pinu
→ Proto-West Germanic: *pīnā (see there for further descendants)
→ Irish: péine, pín
→ Welsh: pin

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pīnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467