compenser
French
verb
Definitions
- to compensate for, to offset
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compensāre (weight together one thing against another, spare, make good, later also shorten, balance).
Origin
Latin
compensāre
Gloss
weight together one thing against another, spare, make good, later also shorten, balance
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- compensatory English
- compense English
- compensāre Latin
- compensare Italian
- compensatoire French
- compensatoirement French
- compensar Spanish, Castilian
- compensar Portuguese
- compensa Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- compensare Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan