pain

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Antonyms 1.3.4 Hyponyms 1.3.5 Derived terms 1.3.6 Related terms 1.3.7 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 References 2 Finnish 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.2.1 Homophones 3.3 Noun 3.3.1 Derived terms

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French peine < Latin poena (“‘punishment, pain’”) < Ancient Greek ποινή (poine), “‘bloodmoney, were-gild, fine, price paid, penalty’”). Compare; German Pein de(de), Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /peɪn/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: pane

[edit] Noun

pain (countable and uncountable; plural pains)

1. (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.

2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.

   In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

   The pain of departure was difficult to bear.

3. (countable) An annoying person or thing.

   Your mother is a right pain.

4. (uncountable) (obsolete) Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.

   You may not leave this room on pain of death.

   Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden

   We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. — Bacon

[edit] Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, excruciating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.

[edit] Synonyms

• (an annoying person or thing) pest
• See also Wikisaurus:pain

[edit] Antonyms

• pleasure

[edit] Hyponyms

• agony
• anguish
• pang
• neuropathic pain
• nociceptive pain
• phantom pain
• psychogenic pain

[edit] Derived terms

• painkiller
• pain in the arse
• pain in the ass
• pain in the bum
• pain in the butt
• pain in the neck

[edit] Related terms

• pained
• painful
• painfully
• painless
• painlessly
• painlessness

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[edit] Verb

to pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

   It pains me to say that I must let you go.

3. (transitive) (obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

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[edit] References

• pain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• pain in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• pain at OneLook® Dictionary Search

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Noun

pain

1. Genitive singular form of pai.

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Old French pan, from Latin panis.

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• IPA: /pɛ̃/, SAMPA: /pE~/
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[edit] Homophones

• pin

[edit] Noun

pain m. (plural pains)

1. bread
2. piece of bread

[edit] Derived terms