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pain

noun
/ˈpeɪ̯n/US/ˈpæɪ̯n/

Etymology

From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)). Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore).

  1. derived from *kʷoynéh₂✻ — “payment”
  2. derived from *kʷoinā́✻
  3. derived from ποινή
  4. derived from poena
  5. derived from peine
  6. inherited from peyne

Definitions

  1. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this

    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. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure

    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.
    • And I should tell him all my pain, ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]

  3. An annoying person or thing.

    • Your mother is a right pain.
    • Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

      • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
      • We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
      • 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.

    2. Labour

      Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

    3. To hurt

      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.

    4. To render uneasy in mind

      To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

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

    5. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty

      To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

    6. To feel pain

      To feel pain; to hurt.

      • Please help me: I am paining hard.
      • Oh my head is aching, oh Lord Damodara [Visnu], give me "kazhi". The neck is paining, oh Lord Kamadeva give me relief. My chest is paining, oh Lord Madhava, give me relief.

    7. Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

      • gammon pain; Spanish pain

    8. A surname.

    9. Acronym of pan-assay interference compound.

The neighborhood

Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pain. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at pain. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at pain

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA