Noun: pena
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pena |
| Plural f | penas |
Sample Sentences
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o bispo et esse Ferrand Bonome por si et por sa moller se obligaron su pena de mill mor. da boa moneda para gardaren a vnna parte aa outra todas estas cousas (the bishop and this Fernando Bonome, for him and for his wife, compromised themselves, under a penalty of a thousand coins, to respect this agreement) [1370, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 103:]
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en guisa que a sua alma ouuese bẽeyçóm et nõ andase en pena (so that his soul would be blessed and wouldn't wander in pain) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:]
Nouns inflected like pena
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pena (displacing pẽa), from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂. See: Latin Nouns '
poena', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ποινή'.
Verbs referencing "pena"
Portuguese Nouns
penha.
Translations