paenitentia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From paenitēns (“repenting”), present active participle of paeniteō (“regret, repent”). In the Vulgate, used as the translation of Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “repentance”), and found in the phrase paenitentiam ago (“do penance”) as a translation of μετανοέω (metanoéō, “repent”).

Pronunciation

Noun

paenitentia f (genitive paenitentiae); first declension

  1. repentance, penitence, regret
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) penance

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative paenitentia paenitentiae
Genitive paenitentiae paenitentiārum
Dative paenitentiae paenitentiīs
Accusative paenitentiam paenitentiās
Ablative paenitentiā paenitentiīs
Vocative paenitentia paenitentiae

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Asturian: penitencia
  • Catalan: penitència
  • Emilian: penitänza
  • Old French: penitence, peneance
  • Friulian: penitince
  • → German: Pönitenz
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: penitensa
  • Italian: penitenza
  • Karipúna Creole French: penitãs
  • Ladin: penitenza
  • Mirandese: peniténcia
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pẽedença
  • Piedmontese: penitensa
  • Romanian: penitență
  • Sardinian: peneténscia, peneténtzia, penetéscia, peniténscia, peniténtzia, penitéssia
  • Spanish: penitencia

Participle

paenitentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of paenitēns

References
  • “paenitentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “paenitentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paenitentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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