different between punishment vs peine

English

Etymology

From Middle English punishement, punyschment, punyschement, ponyshemente, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”), synchronically equivalent to punish +? -ment. Compare the English nouns punishing and punition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pun?ish?ment

Noun

punishment (countable and uncountable, plural punishments)

1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

Synonyms

• castigation
• punition
• beating

Antonyms

• reward

Hyponyms

• retribution
• corporal punishment
• mirror punishment

Derived terms

• brute for punishment

Related terms

• punishable
• punisher
• punishing
• punitive
• impunity

Translations

See also

• telishment

Anagrams

• unshipment

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.