pension
French
noun
Definitions
- A pension, regularly received payment
- A pension, boarding house
- A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
- board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pension (rent, payment) borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pensio, pēnsiōnem (rent, payment, compensation, weight).
Origin
Latin
pēnsiō, pensio, pēnsiōnem
Gloss
rent, payment, compensation, weight
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pensio Latin
- pēnsiō, pensio, pēnsiōnem Latin
- Halbpension German
- Pension German
- Pensionär German
- panzió Hungarian
- penzió Hungarian
- pension Dutch, Flemish
- pensionnaire French
- pensionnat French
- пансион Russian
- пансионат Russian
- пе́нсия Russian
- пенсионер Russian
- пенсия Russian
- pensión Spanish, Castilian
- pensjon Norwegian Bokmål
- pensão Portuguese
- pensionat Swedish
- pensjon Norwegian Nynorsk
- panssion Old French
- pencion Old French
- pension Old French
- pensie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pensiune Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πανσιόν Greek (modern)
- pensioen Middle Dutch
- pensionnat Norman
- pension Venetian