penalty

English Online Dictionary. What means penalty‎? What does penalty mean?

English

Alternative forms

• pœnalty (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French pénalité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnəlti/
• Hyphenation: pen‧al‧ty

Noun

penalty (plural penalties)

1. A legal sentence.

2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
4. In sports
   1. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
   2. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

5. A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.

Synonyms

• punition
• punishment
• sentence

Derived terms

Related terms

• penal
• penality (rare)
• penalize

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: بلنتي (balanti)
• → Portuguese: pênalti, penálti
• → Spanish: penalti
• → Swahili: penalti

Translations

See also

• free kick

Anagrams

• a-plenty, aplenty, netplay

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pe‧nal‧ty

Noun

penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)

1. penalty kick

French

Alternative forms

• pénalty (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.nal.ti/

Noun

penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)

1. (sports) penalty, penalty kick

Further reading

• “penalty”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• penalti

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French penalty or English penalty.

Noun

penalty n (plural penalty-uri)

1. (soccer, sports) penalty

Declension