poenan.

Etymology: < classical Latin poena penalty, punishment, satisfaction, revenge, unpleasant consequence, in post-classical Latin also suffering, affliction (4th cent.) < ancient Greek ποινή blood money, fine, penalty, satisfaction, reward < the same Indo-European base as Avestan kaenā vengeance, reparation and, with a different ablaut grade, Old Church Slavonic cěna , Russian cena , and Lithuanian kaina all in sense ‘price’. Compare earlier poena damni n., subpoena n. Compare earlier pain n.¹The Latin form poena is recorded frequently in ancient inscriptions and in manuscripts. The form pena is recorded in inscriptions from the 1st cent. a.d., and the form paena in post-classical Latin from the early Christian period. Also occasionally found in other Latin phrases in English contexts:1643 Proc. Provinc. Court 6 Feb. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 119 In poenam contumacie the Court admitted the plfs. proofe.1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 560 Skeen..observes, that pœna extraordinaria, may be sometimes extended to death.1757 in Decisions Court of Session (1805) XXIV. 10049 Expenses of plea..are in no case due or exigible, unless the Court finds that a party has been litigious, and specially subjects him to the costs of his opponent, in pœnam of his offence.