poenam

poenam is a Latin form of poena, meaning “penalty, punishment; (poenas dare) pay the penalty, be punished”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 296 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.1: Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.

Seneca the Younger, Medea 492: Poenam putabam: munus ut video est fuga.

All forms of poena (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.