pension
English
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PENSIONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PENSION pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#PENSION pencione, Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PENSION pencion, and their source, LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PENSION pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensioneCategory:English doublets#PENSION.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɛnʃən/Category:English 2-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛnʃn̩/Category:English 2-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION, enPR: pĕn'shn
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PENSIONAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnʃənCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnʃən#PENSIONCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnʃən/2 syllables#PENSION
Noun
pension (plural pensions)Category:English lemmas#PENSIONCategory:English nouns#PENSIONCategory:English countable nouns#PENSIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- (financeCategory:en:Finance#PENSION) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]
- Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.Category:English terms with usage examples#PENSION
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PENSION) A wage or fee. [14th–19th c.]
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PENSION) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th–17th c.]
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- (now historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#PENSION) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
Synonyms
- (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation
- (payment for accommodations): rent
Hyponyms
- (UK retirement schemes): AVC, buyout policy, FSAVC, GPP, GSHP, GSIPP, personal pension, retirement annuity contract, S2P, SERPS, SIPP, SSAS, stakeholder pension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Irish: pinsean
Translations
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Verb
pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)Category:English lemmas#PENSIONCategory:English verbs#PENSIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PENSION) To grant a pension to.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PENSION) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Synonyms
- (to force to retire): pension off
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#PENSIONCategory:English terms derived from French#PENSION pension, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PENSION pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensioneCategory:English doublets#PENSION.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃/, /pɑnˈsjoʊn/Category:English 2-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:English 2-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/Category:English 2-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION
- Rhymes: -əʊnCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊn#PENSIONCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊn/2 syllables#PENSION
Noun
pension (plural pensions)Category:English lemmas#PENSIONCategory:English nouns#PENSIONCategory:English countable nouns#PENSIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
- 1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp:
- A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes notCategory:English terms with quotations#PENSION
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PENSION) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Synonyms
- hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board
Translations
Anagrams
Category:en:Hotels#PENSIONCategory:en:Housing#PENSIONCategory:en:Insurance#PENSIONDanish
Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#PENSIONCategory:Danish terms derived from French#PENSION pension, from LatinCategory:Danish terms derived from Latin#PENSION pensio.
Noun
pension c (singular definite pensionen, plural indefinite pensioner)Category:Danish lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Danish nouns#PENSIONCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- a pension, boarding house
- pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
- lodging and meals that is provided by such places
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pension | pensionen | pensioner | pensionerne |
| genitive | pensions | pensionens | pensioners | pensionernes |
Derived terms
- folkepension
- førtidspension
- halvpension
- helpension
- hestepension
- hundepension
- invalidepension
- kapitalpension
- kattepension
- pensionist
- pensionsaftale
- pensionsbeskatning
- pensionsbidrag
- pensionsgivende
- pensionskunde
- pensionslov
- pensionsopsparing
- pensionssystem
- pensionsydelse
- ratepension
- socialpension
- ungdomspension
- ægtefællepension
See also
References
- “pension” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#PENSIONCategory:Dutch terms derived from French#PENSION pension, itself from LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#PENSION pensio (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh, pay”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pension n (plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Dutch nouns#PENSIONCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#PENSIONCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- a pension, boarding house
- a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
- the services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals
Derived terms
Related terms
- pensionaat n
- pensionair m
- pensionaris m
Descendants
- → Indonesian: pènsiun
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /penˈsion/Category:Esperanto 3-syllable words#PENSIONCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION
- Rhymes: -ionCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ion#PENSIONCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/ion/3 syllables#PENSION
- Syllabification: pen‧si‧on
Noun
pensionCategory:Esperanto non-lemma forms#PENSIONCategory:Esperanto noun forms#PENSIONCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- accusative singular of pensioCategory:Esperanto noun forms#PENSION
Estonian
Etymology
Ultimately from LatinCategory:Estonian terms derived from Latin#PENSION pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pˈenʲsion/Category:Estonian terms with IPA pronunciation#PENSION
Noun
pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)Category:Estonian lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Estonian nouns#PENSIONCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- pension
- riiklik pension ― state pensionCategory:Estonian terms with usage examples#PENSION
Declension
| Declension of pension (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pension | pensionid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | pensioni | ||
| genitive | pensionide | ||
| partitive | pensioni | pensione pensionisid | |
| illative | pensioni pensionisse |
pensionidesse pensionesse | |
| inessive | pensionis | pensionides pensiones | |
| elative | pensionist | pensionidest pensionest | |
| allative | pensionile | pensionidele pensionele | |
| adessive | pensionil | pensionidel pensionel | |
| ablative | pensionilt | pensionidelt pensionelt | |
| translative | pensioniks | pensionideks pensioneks | |
| terminative | pensionini | pensionideni | |
| essive | pensionina | pensionidena | |
| abessive | pensionita | pensionideta | |
| comitative | pensioniga | pensionidega | |
| Declension of pension (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pension | pensionid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | pensioni | ||
| genitive | pensionite | ||
| partitive | pensionit | pensioneid | |
| illative | pensionisse | pensionitesse pensioneisse | |
| inessive | pensionis | pensionites pensioneis | |
| elative | pensionist | pensionitest pensioneist | |
| allative | pensionile | pensionitele pensioneile | |
| adessive | pensionil | pensionitel pensioneil | |
| ablative | pensionilt | pensionitelt pensioneilt | |
| translative | pensioniks | pensioniteks pensioneiks | |
| terminative | pensionini | pensioniteni | |
| essive | pensionina | pensionitena | |
| abessive | pensionita | pensioniteta | |
| comitative | pensioniga | pensionitega | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pension”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “pension”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- pension in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#PENSIONCategory:French terms derived from Old French#PENSION pension, panssion, borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#PENSIONCategory:French terms derived from Latin#PENSION pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pension f (plural pensions)Category:French lemmas#PENSIONCategory:French nouns#PENSIONCategory:French countable nouns#PENSIONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:French feminine nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- a pension, regularly received payment
- pension à taux plein
- full pension
- 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)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: pansyon
- → Belarusian: пансiён (pansijón), пансыён (pansyjón)
- → Bulgarian: пансион (pansion)
- → German: Pension
- → Greek: πανσιόν (pansión)
- → Macedonian: пансио́н (pansión)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پانسیون
- Turkish: pansiyon
- → Romanian: pension
- → Russian: пансио́н (pansión)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Ukrainian: пансіо́н (pansión)
Further reading
- “pension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Category:fr:Hotels#PENSIONCategory:fr:Housing#PENSIONMiddle English
Noun
pensionCategory:Middle English alternative forms#PENSIONCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- alternative form of pencioun
Old French
Noun
pension oblique singular, f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)Category:Old French lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Old French nouns#PENSIONCategory:Old French feminine nouns#PENSIONCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Old French feminine nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- alternative form of panssion
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#PENSIONCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#PENSION pension.
Noun
pension n (plural pensioane)Category:Romanian lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Romanian nouns#PENSIONCategory:Romanian countable nouns#PENSIONCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | pension | pensionul | pensioane | pensioanele |
| genitive-dative | pension | pensionului | pensioane | pensioanelor |
| vocative | pensionule | pensioanelor | ||
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
pension cCategory:Swedish lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Swedish nouns#PENSIONCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION
- retirement (from work)
- att gå i pension
- to retire
- se fram emot pensionen
- look forward to retirement
- pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
- Hon får 20 000 kronor i pension före skatt
- She receives a [monthly implied] pre-tax pension of 20,000 kronor
- (literally, “She gets 20,000 kronor in pension before tax”)
- pension (a type of accommodation)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | pension | pensions |
| definite | pensionen | pensionens | |
| plural | indefinite | pensioner | pensioners |
| definite | pensionerna | pensionernas |
Related terms
See also
References
- “pension”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “pension”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “pension”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
Anagrams
Venetan
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Venetan terms borrowed from Latin#PENSIONCategory:Venetan terms derived from Latin#PENSION pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.
Noun
pension f (invariable)Category:Venetan lemmas#PENSIONCategory:Venetan nouns#PENSIONCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#PENSIONCategory:Venetan feminine nouns#PENSIONCategory:Pages with entries#PENSIONCategory:Pages with 11 entries#PENSION