The story
- Latin · derived frompaene“almost”
- English todaypene-
From Latin paene (“almost”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpaene all →
penumbrapenannularpeninitial
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pene-
Today it means: Almost the thing or quality expressed by the root, as peneplain (almost a plain), peninsula (almost an island), penultimate (almost the last), penumbra (almost in shadow). Full definition →
Latin paene