Tine vs Tinea - What's the difference?
tine | tinea |
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb
A small branch, especially on an antler or horn
(obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
* Spenser
To kindle; to set on fire.
* Dryden
* Spenser
(obsolete) To rage; to smart.
* Spenser
(pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm.
*1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:
*:Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea , her fingernails black and broken.
As a noun tine
is large wine barrel.As a proper noun tinea is
.tine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tind''. Cognate with German ''Zinne .Noun
(en noun)See also
* prong * tooth * toolEtymology 2
See .Noun
- Cruel winter's tine .
Etymology 3
See tind.Verb
(tin)- to tine the cloven wood
- coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd
- Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine .