paenitentia

Latin

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”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pae̯.niˈten.ti.a/, [päe̯nɪˈt̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.niˈten.t͡si.a/, [peniˈt̪ɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

paenitentia f (genitive paenitentiae); first declension

Asturian: penitencia
Catalan: penitència
Emilian: penitänza
Old French: penitence, peneance
- French: pénitence
- → English: penitence, penance
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

paenitentia

“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.