## Meanings
1. An unpleasant physical feeling caused by illness or injury.
2. A feeling of mental or emotional suffering.
3. An annoying person or thing.
4. To cause someone emotional suffering.

## Examples
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
- She still feels the pain of losing her closest friend.
- Filling in all these forms is a real pain.
- It pains me to see my children struggling at school.

## Synonyms
- misery
- wark

## Antonyms
- pleasure

## Derived Forms
- after-pain
- afterpain
- antipain
- hunger-pain
- man-pain
- manpain
- pain-free
- pain-making
- pain-racked
- pain-relieving
- painable
- painal

## Related Forms
- pained
- painful
- painfully
- painless
- painlessly
- painlessness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kʷey-
- Root: peyne
- Root: peine
- Root: poena
- Root: ποινή
- Root: *kʷoinā́
- Root: *kʷoynéh₂

## Etymology
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”)). 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).

## AI Etymology
Pain comes 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”)). 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). Modern senses include an unpleasant physical feeling caused by illness or injury and a feeling of mental or emotional suffering. The wider word family includes derivatives such as after-pain, afterpain, antipain, hunger-pain, man-pain, and manpain and related forms such as pained, painful, painfully, and painless.

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- Health & Medicine

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