different between stipend vs annuity

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.

English

Etymology

From French annuité, from Medieval Latin annuit?s, from Latin annuus (“annual”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n(j)u?ti/

Noun

annuity (plural annuities)

1. (insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.

Derived terms

• annuitant
• annuitize

Related terms

• perpetuity

Translations