pena
Catalan
noun
Definitions
- punishment, penalty
- grief, sorrow, pain
- a shame, a pity
Etymology
Inherited from Old Occitan pena inherited from Latin poena (punishment, pain, penalty, strife) derived from Ancient Greek ποινή (penalty, fine, bloodmoney, price paid, weregild, punishment, blood money).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ποινή
Gloss
penalty, fine, bloodmoney, price paid, weregild, punishment, blood money
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- penology English
- poena Latin
- poenalis Latin
- poenarius Latin
- poeniō Latin
- pēna Latin
- pena Italian
- peine French
- ποινή Ancient Greek
- *kʷey- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷoynéh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *pīnōną Proto-Germanic
- pína Old Norse
- peine Old French
- penal Catalan, Valencian
- penalitzar Catalan, Valencian
- penă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ποινή Greek (modern)
- poeni Welsh
- pine Middle Dutch
- pīna Old High German
- pén Old Irish
- pena Old Portuguese
- pīn Middle Low German
- pena Old Occitan
- pena Old Spanish
- peine, paine xno
- pénn-a Ligurian
- peina Ladin
- pena Ladin
- *kʷoinā́ Proto-Hellenic