paeniteo

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

Perhaps related to paene (“almost”) and to paenūria (“shortage”), meaning lack/shortage/dissatisfaction.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pae̯ˈnɪ.te.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈniː.te.o]

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

1. (transitive, pre-classical and Late Latin) to cause (someone) to regret or repent
2. (intransitive) 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.

(See also paenitīre.)

• ⇒ Romanian: pănăta
• → Proto-Albanian:
  • ⇒ Albanian: pendohem

• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pœnĭtēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 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