English → Latin
“pain” in Latin
dolorpain, ache, hurt; anguish, grief, sorrow; indignation, resentment, anger, fury, vengeancecruciōto crucify; to tortureaegritūdōillness, sickness; grief, sorrowsollicitūdōanxiety, worry, concern, uneasiness; watchful concern, solicitude; anxious care or attention, painstakingnessangōto bind, draw, press together; to choke, throttle, strangle (replaced in Classical Latin by suffoco); to cause physical poenapenalty, punishment; hardship, torment; executiondoleōto hurt, suffer (physical pain); to be sorry, to grieve for, lament, deploreefficiōto make out or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose; to cause to occur, to bring about, afferōto carry forth; to bring forth; conduct; to bring, bear, convey or carry information, report, announce, inform, publish,commoveōto move something in violent motion, move; shake, stir, shift, agitate; to remove something from somewhere, carry away,
The English word pain itself goes back to Latin poena.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pain s.
Bodily anguish, dolor; cruciatus (severe). To be free from pain, dolore vacare, carere dolore; non or nihil dolere: to be in pain, suffer pain, dolere: to inflict pain, dolorem alicui facere, efficere, dare, afferre, immovere: to lose pain, dolorem abjicere, deponere.
Mental distress, grief, aegritudo, sollicitudo, (stronger) angor (Cic., Tusc., 4, 8, 18, angor est aegritudo premens; also the plur., angores when the pain is frequent or lasting). Excruciating pain, dolor (Cic., loc. cit., dolor est aegritudo crucians). A person gives me pain, oritur mihi ab aliquo aegritudo; aliquis mihi sollicitudinem affert; aliquis me aegritudine or sollicitudine afficit: a thing causes pain to me, aliquid mihi solliciludini est; aliquid me sollicitum habet: to suffer pain, in aegritudine or sollicitudine esse; aegritudine or sollicitudine affectum esse: to suffer great pain on account of anything, sollicitudine alicujus rei vel maxime urgeri: free from pain, aegritudine or sollicitudine vacuus; vacuus ab angoribus: freedom from pain, vacuitas a sollicitudine, or ab angoribus (☞ Cic., De Off., 1, 21, 73).
Penalty, poena: under pain of death, proposita, or interposita, poena capitis (Caes., Liv.); sub mortis or capitis poena (Suet.).
pain v.
Bodily, dolorem alicui facere, efficere, dare, afferre, commovere.
Mentally, alicui maerorom dare; aliquem cura et sollicitudine afficere; alicui trisfitiam afferre: it pains me, doleo aliquid; hoc mihi dolet (with an accusative and infinitive, or with quod).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pain?
- The usual Latin words for “pain” are dolor, cruciō, aegritūdō; also sollicitūdō, angō, poena. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.