Etymology

penology

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Today it means: Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime. Full definition →

Latin poena
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompoena“penalty, punishment”
  2. English todaypenology

From Latin poena (“penalty, punishment”) + -ology.

Words from the same roots

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