πεύκ-η, ἡ,
pine, especially Pinus Laricio, Corsican pine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.494, 23.328, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1310, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.69, etc.: distinguished from πίτυς (which see), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of other species, π. ἥμερος stone pine, Pinus Pinea, [[[prev. work] 3. 9.4 ] Refs]; π. παραλία Aleppo pine, P. halepensis, [[[prev. work] 3.9.1 ] Refs]; πεύκης τρόπον, proverbial of utter destruction, [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 5.76 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; compare πίτυς.
__II anything made from the wood of the πεύκη, torch of pine-wood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 288 (uncertain), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 214 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 716 (Lyric poetry), etc.; κάμακες πεύκης οἱ πυρίφλεκτοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 171. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 wooden writing-tablet, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 39 (_anapaest meter_), “Hipp.” 1254 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. OPruss. peuse, Lithuanian pušìs, OHG. fiuhta 'pine'; perhaps originally 'needle-tree', compare ἐχεπευκής, περιπευκής.)