## AI Etymology
Punitory comes from Latin punitorius ('punishing'), from punire ('to punish'), from poena ('penalty'). The historical chain includes Latin punitorius, Latin punire, and Latin poena. The quoted older senses, "punishing", "to punish", and "penalty", supply the semantic anchors for punitory. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word punitory carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "inflicting or intended as punishment". Related English forms include punitive, punition, punish, and punishment. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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