dine
English
/daɪn/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- (transitive) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Etymology
Derived from Old French disner (dine, eat the main meal of the day) derived from Latin *disiūnāre, ieiūnus (hungry, abstinent, fasting).
Origin
Latin
ieiūnus
Gloss
hungry, abstinent, fasting
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- diner English
- dinerlike English
- dinery English
- dinest English
- dineth English
- dinette English
- interdine English
- *disieiunāre Latin
- *disiūnāre Latin
- *disiūnō Latin
- dis- Latin
- disieiūnō Latin
- ieiuno Latin
- ieiūnus Latin
- ieiūnāre Latin
- iēiūnō, iēiūnāre Latin
- jejūnāre Latin
- dinieren German
- diner Dutch, Flemish
- dineren Dutch, Flemish
- dîner French
- dîneur French
- ayunar Spanish, Castilian
- desayunar Spanish, Castilian
- *Hyeh₂ǵ-yu- Proto-Indo-European
- disner Old French
- dejú Catalan, Valencian
- dinear Ido
- dineo Ido
- disner Middle French
- dinnér, dinér Middle Irish
- dínér Middle Irish
- disnar Venetian
- desuyuná Papiamentu
- disnâ Ligurian
- disnur Dalmatian
- dinin Louisiana Creole French