DictionaryRoot: poena
Latin

poena

punishment

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noun / verb

pain

PAYN/peɪn/

Physical or emotional suffering.

Etymology

Latin poena meant punishment or penalty and also came to mean torment and suffering. That extension connects a penalty imposed on someone with the distress felt when the body is hurt.

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