# confine
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

### Pronunciation

* (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA: /kənˈfaɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (noun)
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒnfaɪn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US) enPR: känʹfīn, IPA: /ˈkɑnfaɪn/
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Verb

confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)
* (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on. [16th–19th c.]
** 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
** 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
** 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 467:‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’
* (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.]
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
** 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,
    He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

#### Derived terms

* confinable
* confination
* confinee
* deconfine
* reconfine
* unconfine

#### Translations
### Noun

confine (plural confines)
* (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
* (poetic) Confinement, imprisonment.
** a. 1917, anonymous, “Lord Bateman” (folk song) as published in Bertrand Harris Bronson (1959) The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. 1, p. 419:
    She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

#### Synonyms

* (limit): border, bound, limit

#### Derived terms

* confineless

#### Translations
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.fin/
* Homophones: confinent, confines

### Verb

confine
* inflection of confiner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Verb

confine
* inflection of confinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cōnfīnis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈfi.ne/
* Rhymes: -ine
* Hyphenation: con‧fì‧ne

### Noun

confine m (plural confini)
* border, frontier
* boundary

#### Synonyms

* limite

#### Related terms

* confinante
* confinare
* confinario
* confino

## Latin
### Adjective

cōnfīne
* nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of cōnfīnis

## Portuguese
### Verb

confine
* inflection of confinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

confine
* inflection of confinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative