Ancient Greek

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According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (to weave, to twist), with semantic shift "weaving, stretching" > "tensing, strain" > "exertion, toil". Cognate with Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, to exert oneself), Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (to spin), and Lithuanian pìnti (to twist).[1]

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πόνος (pónosm (genitive πόνου); second declension

  1. labor, work (especially hard work; toil
    • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 866:
      πόνος πόνῳ πόνον φέρει
      pónos pónōi pónon phérei
      Toil brings toil through toil.
  2. bodily exertion, exercise
  3. work, task, business
  4. the consequence of toil, distress, trouble, suffering
  5. anything produced by work, a work

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πονέομαι, πόνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1221

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Greek

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos).

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πόνος (pónosm (plural πόνοι)

  1. (medicine) pain, ache

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