1dine pronunciation: function: verb inflected form(s): dined; din;ingetymology: middle english, from anglo-french disner, diner to eat, have a meal, from vulgar latin *disjejunare to break one's fast, from latin dis- + late latin jejunare to fast, from latin jejunus fastingdate: 13th centuryintransitive verb : to take dinner —often used with on lt;dine on pastagt;transitive verb : to give a dinner to lt;wined her and dined hergt;