Etymology: < French -in, -ine < classical Latin -īnus , -īna (also -inus , -ina ), suffix forming adjectives (compare -ine suffix¹, -ine suffix²).Bombazeen apparently provided the model in the 18th cent. for use in other fabric names such as velveteen n. or β. forms at Aleppine adj. and n., followed by sateen n. (an alteration of satin n.) and later formations such as suedine n.

Etymology: < Irish -ín, diminutive suffix (Early Irish -ín ), alteration of two older diminutive suffixes -án and -én under the influence of classical Latin -īnus -ine suffix¹ and of the Early Irish singulative ending -ine, variant of -ne (for more detail on the complex process see the discussion in D. A. Binchy & O. Bergin tr. R. Thurneysen Gram. Old Irish (1946) 173–5).Borrowings of such Irish diminutive formations are found in English in the late 17th cent. and more commonly from the late 18th cent. (compare e.g. paddhereen n., spalpeen n., dudeen n.). Formations within English are found from the end of the 18th cent. onwards (compare e.g. buckeen n.¹, jackeen n., and perhaps also smithereens n.). Irish formations based on borrowings from English are found from the 16th cent. (e.g. fidilín little fiddle); some of these have subsequently been borrowed back into English (e.g. poteen n.).