Dined
/daɪnd/noun
Simple past tense and past participle of dine, meaning to eat a meal.
Did you know?Dine comes from Old French disner, originally meaning “to break one’s fast,” and the word’s history shows how meals, time, and social status got woven into one polite verb.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
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“No direct reconstructed root is securely established for this word’s earliest prehistory.”
Late Latin
Latin
disjejunare
“To break a fast.”
Old French
OF
disner
“To eat the first meal of the day; later, to eat a meal.”
Middle English
English
dinen
“To eat the main meal of the day.”
Modern English
English
dined
“Ate a meal; took dinner.”