different between peine vs perne

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.

English

Etymology

Nonce-derivation from pern by William Butler Yeats; see the 1928 quotation.

Verb

perne (third-person singular simple present pernes, present participle perning, simple past and past participle perned)

1. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
   • 1928, William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", in The Tower:

     Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre

Anagrams

• neper, preen

French

Etymology

From Latin perna (“mussel”)

Noun

perne f (plural pernes)

1. A kind of saltwater mussel. (Mytiloida)

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

pern?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perne?

Tocharian B

Etymology

From an Iranian language. Compare Tocharian A parä?.

Noun

perne

1. power, rank
2. glory