πίτυς [ῐ], υος, ἡ,
Epic dialect dative plural πίτυσσιν, pine, especially Pinus Laricio, Corsican pine, π. βλωθρή, τήν τ᾽ οὔρεσι τέκτονες ἄνδρες ἐξέταμον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.390; μακρῇσίν τε πίτυσσιν ἰδὲ δρυσίν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.186 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also, Aleppo pine, P. halepensis, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.5, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 301, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.1.3, “Geoponica” 2.8.2 (called π. ἀγρία 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.9.3, 3.3.1, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.6.4)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; stone pine, P. pinea, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.49, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.69, 72 (π. ἥμερος 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.9.1)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; small-seeded pine, P. brutia, π. φθειροποιός [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.2.6, compare 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 16.49 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; the Isthmian pine was one species, [[ 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 2, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.675e: proverbial, πίτυος τρόπον ἐκτρίβειν] Refs 3rd c.BC+] like a pine, i.e. utterly, because the pine when cut down never grows again, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.37 (but this is attributed to the πεύκη, and not to the πίτυς, by 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.5). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]