Sense

1. hunger, famine
2. hunger or longing for

Examples

• "ἀνέραστοσ γὰρ ὁμιλία καθάπερ πεῖνα καὶ δίψα πλησμονὴν ἔχουσα πέρασ εἰσ οὐδὲν ἐξικνεῖται καλόν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 13 2:14)
• λέγω δὲ ἀλόγουσ ὅσασ μὴ ἐκ τοῦ ὑπολαμβάνειν ἐπιθυμοῦσιν εἰσὶν δὲ τοιαῦται ὅσαι εἶναι λέγονται φύσει, ὥσπερ αἱ διὰ τοῦ σώματοσ ὑπάρχουσαι, οἱο͂ν ἡ τροφῆσ δίψα καὶ πεῖνα, καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον εἶδοσ τροφῆσ εἶδοσ ἐπιθυμίασ, καὶ αἱ περὶ τὰ γευστὰ καὶ ἀφροδίσια καὶ ὅλωσ τὰ ἁπτά, καὶ περὶ ὀσμὴν εὐωδίασ καὶ ἀκοὴν καὶ ὄψιν, μετὰ λόγου δὲ ὅσασ ἐκ τοῦ πεισθῆναι ἐπιθυμοῦσιν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 5:4)
• ὅτι δ’ ἔστι λιποθυμία καὶ οὐ πεῖνα, μηνύει τὸ τῶν ὑποζυγίων· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 22:1)
• ἐὰν πεινᾷ ὁ ἐχθρόσ σου, ψώμιζε αὐτόν, ἐὰν διψᾷ, πότιζε αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 25:23)
• τοῦ πεινᾶν, πείνα καλῶσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 8:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.