veine

veine

1. partitive plural of vein

Inherited from Middle French vene, from Old French veine, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/

• Audio; “une veine”:

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• Homophones: vaine, vaines, veinent, veines, vène, vènent, vènes

veine f (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein
2. (geology) vein, seam
3. (informal) luck
   • 1961, Christiane Rochefort, Les petits enfants du siècle, Grasset, page 7:

     Zut dit mon père c'est pas de veine, à quinze jours on loupe la prime.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. inspiration

• → Vietnamese: ven

• “veine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• envie, en vie, envié

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæi̯n(ə)/

From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.

veine (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:

     Whan that Auerill w^t his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]

     When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]

• vein, vene, veyne, vena, vain, vaine, wein, weine, wain, waine, wane

• English: vein
• Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

• “vein(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French veine, from Latin vēnia, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂; doublet of wynne (“happiness”).

veine (plural veines)

1. (Christianity) An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration.

• English: veyne

• “veine, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

veine (third-person singular simple present veineth, present participle veinende, veinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle veined)

1. alternative form of waynen (“to transport via wagon”)

veine

1. alternative form of vein (“vain”)

veine

1. alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

veine f (plural veines)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) vein

• veine varice (“varicose vein”)

• vaine, veyne

From Latin vēna.

veine oblique singular, f (oblique plural veines, nominative singular veine, nominative plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein

• Middle French: vene
  • French: veine
    • → Vietnamese: ven
• Norman: veine
• → Middle English: veine
  • English: vein
  • Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

veine

1. woman

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm,New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976): PAN *binay, *babinay woman: the longer forms coming into PN as wahine, is present in Manus as *pihin, "bihin, and in Wogeo as veine, [...]
• Herbert Ian Hogbin, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (1978)