hi evryone, i have found ou this, Pains - Greek - to punish, Avestan is an old language and it means - revenge, Sanskrit cayate another language meaning - he revenges. 1: punishment. Plural: truble, core, or effort taken to accomplish somthing was at pains to reassure us. Pronunsiation. Function - noun. Etymology - Middle English. I was thinking of Michael and when he was saying in TII "Play it the way i wrote it" and the word 'Pains' at the mamorial just was on my mind and i looked it up in the dictionary and it wasnt there so i went online and found a site but i cant find it now it was an Ask Oxford or something like that anyway.