different between payment vs stipend

English

Etymology

From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p??m?nt, IPA^(key): /?pe?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: pay?ment

Noun

payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments)

1. (uncountable) The act of paying.
2. (countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.

See also

• scot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• payment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French stipende, from Latin stipendium (“pay, stipend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?sta?p?nd/, /-pn?d/

Noun

stipend (plural stipends)

1. (archaic) salary [from 15th c.]
2. A fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance. [from 17th c.]

   My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.

3. A scholarship granted to a student. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• allowance

Coordinate terms

• pocket money

Derived terms

• stipendiary

Translations

Verb

stipend (third-person singular simple present stipends, present participle stipending, simple past and past participle stipended)

1. (obsolete or historical) To provide (someone) with a stipend. [from 15th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 122:

     As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.

Anagrams

• dip nets, dipnets, dispent

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• stipendium

Etymology

From Latin stipendium

Noun

stipend n (definite singular stipendet, indefinite plural stipend or stipender, definite plural stipenda or stipendene)

1. a scholarship (grant made to support a student's education)

References

• “stipend” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin stipendium

Noun

stipend n (definite singular stipendet, indefinite plural stipend, definite plural stipenda)

1. a scholarship (grant, as above)

References

• “stipend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.