pentimento

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*peh₁-“to hate; to hurt”
2. Latin · derived frompaenitēre
3. Italian · learned borrowing frompentimento“repentance, penance, penitence; remorse; change of opinion; correction; traces of a previous image or work in an artwork”
4. English todaypentimento

[Alt: A blue-tinted painting of a man's bent neck, with a faint image of a woman's face in its background] Learned borrowing from Italian pentimento (“repentance, penance, penitence; remorse; change of opinion; correction; traces of a previous image or work in an artwork”), from pentìrsi (“to repent; to regret”) + -mento (suffix forming nouns representing the actions of verbs to which it is attached). Pentìrsi is derived from Latin paenitēre, the present active infinitive of paeniteō (“to cause to repent; to repent; to be sorry, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate; to hurt”).

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