Other forms: pains
Pain is the bad feeling in your body when something hurts. Sharp pain, in pain, pain relief.
Doctors ask you to rate it from one to ten, which is the only measure there is, because pain cannot be observed from outside. Chronic pain lasts beyond healing and is a condition in its own right. It also means emotional suffering: the pain of losing somebody. Informally, a pain is an annoying person or thing: he is a pain, a pain in the neck. Note painful, painkiller, and no pain, no gain.
1nounpainThe bad feeling in your body when something hurts.~98%
“He felt a sharp pain in his knee when he stood up.”
2nounannoyingAn annoying person or thing.~2%
“Filling in all these forms is such a pain.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 10 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
pain is hurt or annoyance.
Also accepted in games: ache
Latin poena meant a penalty or punishment, from Greek poine, blood money paid for a killing. Pain, penalty, punish and penal all come from it, so the word for hurting began as the word for a fine.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷey-
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷoynéh₂ — payment
Proto-Hellenic
*kʷoinā́
Ancient Greek
ποινή — bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty
Latin
poena — punishment, pain
Anglo-Norman
peine
Middle English
peyne
English, today
pain
From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French - and Anglo-Norman peine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (“bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”), from Proto-Hellenic kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European kʷoynéh₂ (“payment”) (whence also Proto-Slavic cěnà (“price”)). a doublet of peine. Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native sār (whence Modern English sore).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA