paeniteo

Latin

Alternative forms

• poeniteō, paeniteor (post-classical)
• paenitīre (Late Latin)

Etymology

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”) and to paenūria (“shortage”), meaning lack/shortage/dissatisfaction.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pae̯ˈni.te.oː/, [päe̯ˈnɪt̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈni.te.o/, [peˈniːt̪eo]

Verb

paeniteō (present infinitive paenitēre, perfect active paenituī, future participle paenitūrus); second conjugation, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal in the passive

1. to cause to repent
2. to regret, repent; to be sorry
3. (impersonal) (with accusative of person, genitive of thing or infinitive) to regret
   • 59 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.23.2:

     Prīmum igitur illud tē scīre volō, Sampsiceramum, nostrum amīcum, vehementer suī stātūs paenitēre restituīque in eum locum cupere ex quō dēcidit.

     First then I want you to know that our friend Sampsiceramus [Pompey] is bitterly unhappy about his position and longs to get back to where he stood before his fall.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.51–52:

     Sed neque paeniteat, nec gēns mihi cārior ūlla est:
     hīc colar, hīc teneam cum Iove templa meō.

     And yet neither is there regret, nor is any other nation dearer to me: here may I be worshipped, here may I occupy the temple with my Jupiter.
     (Juno, after telling of the people and places she could have protected, now says she favors Rome.)

   Mē paenitet alicuius reī.

   I regret something.

   Eum errōris suī multum paenituit.

   He regretted his mistake very much.

Conjugation

Conjugation of paeniteō (second conjugation, no supine stem except in the future active participle, impersonal in passive)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	paeniteō	paenitēs	paenitet	paenitēmus	paenitētis	paenitent
	imperfect	paenitēbam	paenitēbās	paenitēbat	paenitēbāmus	paenitēbātis	paenitēbant
	future	paenitēbō	paenitēbis	paenitēbit	paenitēbimus	paenitēbitis	paenitēbunt
	perfect	paenituī	paenituistī	paenituit	paenituimus	paenituistis	paenituērunt, paenituēre
	pluperfect	paenitueram	paenituerās	paenituerat	paenituerāmus	paenituerātis	paenituerant
	future perfect	paenituerō	paenitueris	paenituerit	paenituerimus	paenitueritis	paenituerint
passive	present	—	—	paenitētur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	paenitēbātur	—	—	—
	future	—	—	paenitēbitur	—	—	—
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	paeniteam	paeniteās	paeniteat	paeniteāmus	paeniteātis	paeniteant
	imperfect	paenitērem	paenitērēs	paenitēret	paenitērēmus	paenitērētis	paenitērent
	perfect	paenituerim	paenituerīs	paenituerit	paenituerīmus	paenituerītis	paenituerint
	pluperfect	paenituissem	paenituissēs	paenituisset	paenituissēmus	paenituissētis	paenituissent
passive	present	—	—	paeniteātur	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	paenitērētur	—	—	—
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	paenitē	—	—	paenitēte	—
	future	—	paenitētō	paenitētō	—	paenitētōte	paenitentō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		paenitēre	paenituisse	paenitūrum esse	paenitērī	—	—
participles		paenitēns	—	paenitūrus	—	—	paenitendum
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		paenitendī	paenitendō	paenitendum	paenitendō	—	—

Derived terms

• repoenitēre

Descendants

(See also paenitīre.)

• ⇒ Romanian: pănăta
• → Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
  • ⇒ Albanian: pendohem

See also

• misereō
• pigeō
• pudeō
• taedeō
• poena

References

• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pœnĭtēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 120
• “paeniteo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paeniteo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paeniteo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am discontented with my lot: fortunae meae me paenitet
    
  • I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim