paeniteo

Latin

Alternative forms

poeniteō, paeniteor (post-classical)
paenitīre (Late Latin)

Etymology

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”) and to paenūria (“shortage”), meaning lack/shortage/dissatisfaction.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pae̯ˈnɪ.te.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈniː.t̪e.o]

Verb

paeniteō (present infinitive paenitēre, perfect active paenituī, future active participle paenitūrus); second conjugation, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal in the passive

to cause to repent
to regret, repent; to be sorry
(impersonal) (with accusative of person, genitive of thing or infinitive) to regret
- 59 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.23.2:
  Prīmum igitur illud tē scīre volō, Sampsiceramum, nostrum amīcum, vehementer suī stātūs paenitēre restituīque in eum locum cupere ex quō dēcidit.
  First then I want you to know that our friend Sampsiceramus [Pompey] is bitterly unhappy about his position and longs to get back to where he stood before his fall.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.51–52:
  Sed neque paeniteat, nec gēns mihi cārior ūlla est:
  hīc colar, hīc teneam cum Iove templa meō.
  And yet neither is there regret, nor is any other nation dearer to me: here may I be worshipped, here may I occupy the temple with my Jupiter.
  (Juno, after telling of the people and places she could have protected, now says she favors Rome.)
Mē paenitet alicuius reī.
I regret something.

Eum errōris suī multum paenituit.
He regretted his mistake very much.

Conjugation

Conjugation of paeniteō (second conjugation, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal in the passive)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	paeniteō	paenitēs		paenitet	paenitēmus	paenitētis		paenitent
	imperfect	paenitēbam	paenitēbās		paenitēbat	paenitēbāmus	paenitēbātis		paenitēbant
	future	paenitēbō	paenitēbis		paenitēbit	paenitēbimus	paenitēbitis		paenitēbunt
	perfect	paenituī	paenituistī		paenituit	paenituimus	paenituistis		paenituērunt, paenituēre
	pluperfect	paenitueram	paenituerās		paenituerat	paenituerāmus	paenituerātis		paenituerant
	future perfect	paenituerō	paenitueris		paenituerit	paenituerimus	paenitueritis		paenituerint
passive	present	—	—		paenitētur	—	—		—
	imperfect	—	—		paenitēbātur	—	—		—
	future	—	—		paenitēbitur	—	—		—
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	paeniteam	paeniteās		paeniteat	paeniteāmus	paeniteātis		paeniteant
	imperfect	paenitērem	paenitērēs		paenitēret	paenitērēmus	paenitērētis		paenitērent
	perfect	paenituerim	paenituerīs		paenituerit	paenituerīmus	paenituerītis		paenituerint
	pluperfect	paenituissem	paenituissēs		paenituisset	paenituissēmus	paenituissētis		paenituissent
passive	present	—	—		paeniteātur	—	—		—
passive	imperfect	—	—		paenitērētur	—	—		—
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	paenitē		—	—	paenitēte		—
active	future	—	paenitētō		paenitētō	—	paenitētōte		paenitentō
passive	future	—	—		paenitētor	—	—		—
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		paenitēre		paenitērī		paenitēns		—
future		paenitūrum esse		—		paenitūrus		paenitendum
perfect		paenituisse		—		—		—
perfect potential		paenitūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		paenitendī	paenitendō		paenitendum	paenitendō	—		—

Derived terms

repoenitēre

Descendants

(See also paenitīre.)

⇒ Romanian: pănăta
→ Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
- ⇒ Albanian: pendohem

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “paene (> Derivatives > paenitēre)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 439