pain – English noun declension

English noun forms of pain

Noun: pain
Singularpain
Pluralpains

Sample Sentences

  • The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
  • I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
  • When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin. [1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:]
  • In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
  • The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
  • And I should tell him all my pain,
  • ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late,
  • ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state
  • And marvel what possess’d my brain; […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 22:]
  • Your mother is a right pain.
  • Today is match day, Grimsby Town are at home, and the ground is walking distance from New Clee station. So, visiting football supporters coming by train have to change at Grimsby Town [station]. That's a real pain. [2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:]
  • You may not leave this room on pain of death.
  • We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. [1629, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War:]
  • Seb[astian]. […] [M]y duty, then, / To interpoſe; on pain of my diſpleasure, / Betwixt your Swords[.] / Dor[ax]. On pain of Infamy / He ſhould have diſobey'd. [1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 105:]
  • The transition to N.E.P. was due to the catastrophic failure of this policy-a failure predicted by the Mensheviks and S.R.s, who for their pains had been denounced, imprisoned, and murdered as henchmen of the White Guards. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 483:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *cěnà (“price”)).
2. Doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old English sār (whence Modern English sore). See: Middle English Nouns 'peyne', Latin Nouns 'poena', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ποινή', Danish Nouns 'pine', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'pine', German Nouns 'Pein', Dutch Nouns 'pijn'.

Verbs referencing "pain"

Swedish Nouns pina.