Noun: pena
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pena |
| Plural f | penas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pena
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, 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'.
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