There are many words to express the infliction of a penalty in
return for wrongdoing—for example, chastise, castigate, chasten, correct,
discipline, and punish. Of these, chastise, chasten, and castigate share
similar origins as well as similar meanings. Chastise developed as an altered
form of chasten, which comes from the Anglo-French chastier, which has its
roots in the Latin verb castigare, which also gave English the word castigate.
