different between stipend vs recompense

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 Middle English, borrowed from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?m?p?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

recompense (countable and uncountable, plural recompenses)

1. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
2. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.

Synonyms

• meed
• payback
• recompence
• restitution

Related terms

• compensate
• recompensate

Translations

Verb

recompense (third-person singular simple present recompenses, present participle recompensing, simple past and past participle recompensed)

1. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
2. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.

3. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

   • Recompense to no man evil for evil.

Translations

Old French

Etymology

From recompenser.

Noun

recompense f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)

1. recompense; compensation

Descendants

• English: recompense

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??e.kõ.?p?.si/

Verb

recompense

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of recompensar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of recompensar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of recompensar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of recompensar

Spanish

Verb

recompense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recompensar.