pain
see also: Pain, PAIN
Etymology 1
Pain
Etymology
PAIN
Etymology
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see also: Pain, PAIN
Etymology 1
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French - and Anglo-Norman peine, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή.
Pronunciation Nounpain
- (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- (now, usually, in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- Your mother is a right pain.
- (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC ↗, Act IV, page 105 ↗:
- Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd.
- (mostly, in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- (an annoying person or thing) pest
- See also Thesaurus:pain
- French: douleur, peine
- German: Schmerz
- Italian: sofferenza, difficoltà
- Portuguese: dor
- Russian: боль
- Spanish: pena
- French: casse-pied, casse-couilles (vulgar)
- Italian: rompicoglioni, rompiscatole
- Portuguese: mala, chato
- Russian: зану́да
pain (pains, present participle paining; simple past and past participle pained)
- (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- The wound pained him.
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. - It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
- Please help me, I am paining hard.
- Italian: addolorare, affliggere
- Portuguese: doer em
- Russian: му́чить
- Spanish: apenar
From Middle English payn, from Old French pain.
Nounpain (plural pains)
Pain
Etymology
Various origins:
- A variant of Paine.
- Borrowed from Spanish Paín.
PAIN
Etymology
Backformation from pain
Nounpain
- Acronym of pan-assay interference compound
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