different between pein vs peine

English

Noun

pein (plural peins)

1. Alternative form of peen

Verb

pein (third-person singular simple present peins, present participle peining, simple past and past participle peined)

1. Alternative form of peen

Anagrams

• -pine, Pine, pine

Lou

Noun

pein

1. woman

References

• ABVD
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Takia

Noun

pein

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Titan

Noun

pein

1. woman

References

• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

English

Etymology

From Old French peine,from Latin poena,from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”). Doublet of pain.

Noun

peine (countable and uncountable, plural peines)

1. (law) Pain or punishment.

Usage notes

This is only used in common law legal contexts, as part of Law French, most often in the phrase peine forte et dure (“strong and hard pain”).

Derived terms

• peine forte et dure

Asturian

Noun

peine m (plural peines)

1. Alternative form of peñe

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Old French peine, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”).

Noun

peine f (plural peines)

1. pain
2. effort, trouble
3. sorrow

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin paene (“almost”); compare Italian appena, Spanish apenas, Catalan a penes

Adverb

peine

1. barely, hardly; used only in the phrase à peine

Further reading

• “peine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épine, épiné

Old French

Alternative forms

• paine
• painne
• poinne

Etymology

From Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ????? (poin?).

Noun

peine f (oblique plural peines, nominative singular peine, nominative plural peines)

1. pain; suffering

Synonyms

• dolor

Descendants

• English: pain (borrowing)
• French: peine

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish peyne, from Latin pecten, pectinem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?peine/, [?pei?.ne]

Noun

peine m (plural peines)

1. comb

   Synonym: peinilla

Derived terms

• peinado
• peinar
• peine navaja
• peineta
• peinilla

Verb

peine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peinar.