The corpus record — Latin

paenitentia

paenitentia · f

repentance

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Paenitentia 61 · 149.73/10k
De Pudicitia 69 · 51.33/10k
De Baptismo 9 · 21.07/10k
De Patientia 5 · 11.04/10k
De Otio 2 · 10.2/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 4 · 5.93/10k
De Carne Christi 4 · 4.21/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Nero 3 · 3.84/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paenĭtentĭa — Lewis & Short

paenĭtentĭa, ae, f.paeniteo,

I repentance, penitence (not in Cic.; cf. Aus. Ep. 12, 10).—Absol.: celerem paenitentiam sequi, Liv. 31, 32: nec poenā commilitonum exterriti, nec paenitentiā conversi, Tac. A. 1, 45: fidelissimus est ad honesta ex paenitentiā transitus, Sen. Q. N. 3, praef. 3.—Plur.: serae dant poenas turpes paenitentiae, Phaedr. 1, 13, 2.—With gen.: coepti, Quint. 12, 5, 3: dicti, id. 9, 2, 60: gestae rei, Plin. 17, 12, 19, § 94; 10, 23, 33, § 67: paenitentiam agere, to repent: eo usque processum est, ut non paeniturum pro non acturo paenitentiam dixerit (Sallustius), Quint. 9, 3, 12: ejus (facinoris), Curt. 8, 6, 23; Plin. Ep. 7, 10, 3; Sen. Suas. 6, 11; 7, 10; Vulg. Matt. 3, 2 al.

In the wild

paenitentiam Tertullian, De Pudicitia 19
paenitentiae Tertullian, De Paenitentia 6
paenitentiae Tertullian, De Paenitentia 1
paenitentiam Petronius, Satyricon 132
paenitentia Tacitus, Historiae 4.20
paenitentiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.10

6 of 357 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.