paenitentia
Latin
Alternative forms
- poenitentia
- penitentia
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pae̯.nɪˈtɛn.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pe.niˈt̪ɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]
Noun
paenitentia f (genitive paenitentiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | paenitentia | paenitentiae |
| genitive | paenitentiae | paenitentiārum |
| dative | paenitentiae | paenitentiīs |
| accusative | paenitentiam | paenitentiās |
| ablative | paenitentiā | paenitentiīs |
| vocative | paenitentia | paenitentiae |
Synonyms
- (repentance): paenitūdō, resipīscentia
Derived terms
Related 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
- Galician: pedenza, → penitencia
- Portuguese: pendença, → penitência
- Piedmontese: penitensa
- Romanian: penitență
- Sardinian: peneténscia, peneténtzia, penetéscia, peniténscia, peniténtzia, penitéssia
- Spanish: penitencia
Participle
paenitentia
- 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.