Piin

From earlier pīne, from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /piːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Piin f (plural Piine) (Eupen)

1. pain (both physical and psychological)
2. (literary or religion) torment; agony

• The plural is uncommon and nearly exclusively occurs for the second sense.