Hell is the term used to indicate the place of punishment and despair which, according to many religions, awaits, after death, the souls of men who have chosen in life to do evil.
The term "hell" derives from the Latin infernu(m) therefore from inferus (infer) in the meaning of "underground", therefore related to the Sanskrit adhara, gothic under, avestico aẟara, therefore from the indeuropean *ndhero with the meaning of "under" (hence the English under, the German unter, the Italian under or even infra). The presence of the f, present only in Latin and in the terms directly derived from it, is for osca dialectal influence from which the Romans inherited the belief that the entry into the "inferus" (here understood as the world "under", where "are" the dead) was located near Cuma.
The term "inferus", however, is commonly related to the notion of some religions, such as the Abrahamic religions, that is, to the place of "punishment" and "despair". In contrast, the term "underworld" commonly refers to that place, such as the Greek Hades, where the shadows of the dead are placed.