The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromποινή“penalty, fine, bloodmoney”
- Latin · derived frompoena
- Old French · derived frompeine
- English todaypeine
From Old French peine, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Doublet of pain.
Words from the same roots
Latinpoena all →
painpinepenology
Ancient Greekποινή all →
painpenaltypinepenal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.