Word Origin Summary

Paenitentia is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• penitencia

  Spanish · borrowed from

• penitencia

  Classical Nahuatl · derived from

• penitenco

  IDO · borrowed from

• penitensiya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• penitential

  English · derived from

• penitence

  English · derived from

• penitenza

  Italian · derived from

• penitence

  French · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root