πόνος

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to weave, to twist”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, “to exert oneself”), Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”) and Lithuanian pìnti (“to twist”).

πόνος • (pónos) m (genitive πόνου); second declension

1. work, especially hard work; toil
2. bodily exertion, exercise
3. work, task, business
4. the consequence of toil, distress, trouble, suffering
5. anything produced by work, a work

• πόνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πόνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πόνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4192 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • disorder idem, page 235.
  • distress idem, page 242.
  • drudgery idem, page 254.
  • effort idem, page 263.
  • exertion idem, page 291.
  • hardship idem, page 386.
  • infirmity idem, page 438.
  • labour idem, page 472.
  • onus idem, page 574.
  • product idem, page 645.
  • strain idem, page 822.
  • striving idem, page 827.
  • struggle idem, page 828.
  • suffering idem, page 835.
  • task idem, page 856.
  • toil idem, page 880.
  • trial idem, page 893.
  • trouble idem, page 897.
  • tug idem, page 900.
  • vigilance idem, page 951.
  • work idem, page 988.
  • wrench idem, page 992.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

From Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos).

πόνος • (pónos) m (plural πόνοι)

1. (medicine) pain, ache

• άλγος n (álgos)

• πονάω (ponáo, “to ache”)
• πονοκέφαλος (ponokéfalos, “headache”)