# 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: /daɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Verb

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
* (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
* (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.
* (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
* dinery
* dinette
* dineware
* dine with Duke Humphrey
* dining
* interdine
* undined
* wine and dine

#### Related terms

* dinner

#### Translations
### Noun

dine (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Dinnertime.

### Anagrams

* Iden, dein, Edin, iDEN, nide, enid, Enid, Nied, IndE, deni, Nide

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* dinne

### Pronunciation

* (Zürich) IPA: /ˈdinə/

### Adverb

dine
* 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
* (possessive) plural of din

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | common | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Singular | Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | hendes | hendes |
| Singular | Third | common (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | indefinite | man | en | ens | ens | ens |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine |
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | vores | vores |
| Plural | First | archaic / formal | vi | os | vor | vort | vore |
| Plural | Second | – | I | jer | jeres | jeres | jeres |
| Plural | Third | – | de | dem | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | sig | deres | deres | deres |

## French
### Verb

dine
* inflection of diner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* déni
* Inde

## Middle Dutch
### Determiner

dine
* inflection of dijn:
** feminine nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

dine
* Alternative form of dynne

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

dine
* Alternative form of digne

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Pronoun

dine pl
* plural of din

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | feminine | masculine | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Singular | Second | general | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | hennes | hennes | hennes |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | masculine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vår | vårt | våre |
| Plural | Second | general | dere | dere | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Second | formal (very rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Plural | Third | general | de | dem | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |

#### References

* “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diːnə/

### Pronoun

dine pl
* plural of din

### References

* “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pali
### 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
* locative singular of dina (“day”)

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈdine/ [ˈd̪iː.n̪ɛ]
* Rhymes: -ine
* Syllabification: di‧ne

### Adverb

dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)
* Alternative form of dini

### See also

| | 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
* dative singular of din