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painable

adj

Etymology

From pain + -able. Compare French pénible.

  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
  7. suffixed as painable — “pain + able”

Definitions

  1. Painful.

    • The manacles of Astyages were not […] the less weighty and paynable for being composed of gold or silver.

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