pension

See also: Pension and pensión

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕn'shən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnʃən

Noun

pension (plural pensions)

1. (finance) 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.

2. (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th–19th c.]
3. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th–17th c.]
4. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
5. (now historical) 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

• full pension
• old age pension
• pensionary
• pension book
• pensioner
• pension fund
• pension house
• pensionless
• pension plan
• preserved pension
• top-hat pension

 

Descendants

• → Irish: pinsean

Translations

regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services

• Arabic: مَعَاش m (maʕāš)

  Egyptian Arabic: معاش m (maʕāš)

• Armenian: թոշակ (hy) (tʻošak)
• Azerbaijani: pensiya, təqaüd (az)
• Bashkir: хаҡлы ял (xaqlı yal)
• Belarusian: пе́нсія f (pjénsija), пэ́нсія f (pénsija)
• Bengali: পেনশন (bn) (penośon)
• Bulgarian: пе́нсия f (pénsija)
• Burmese: ပင်စင် (my) (pangcang)
• Catalan: pensió (ca) f
• Central Melanau: pencen
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養老金／养老金 (zh) (yǎnglǎojīn), 退休金 (zh) (tuìxiūjīn), 年金 (zh) (niánjīn)

• Czech: důchod (cs) m, penze (cs) f
• Danish: pension c
• Dutch: pensioen (nl) n, pension (nl) n
• Esperanto: pensio (eo)
• Estonian: pension (et)
• Faroese: eftirløn f
• Finnish: eläke (fi)
• French: pension (fr) f, retraite (fr) f
• Georgian: პენსია (ṗensia)
• German: Pension (de) f (public service), Rente (de) f
• Greek: σύνταξη (el) f (sýntaxi)
• Hebrew: פֶּנְסִיָּה (he) f (pénsya)
• Hindi: पेंशन (hi) f (penśan)
• Hungarian: nyugdíj (hu)
• Indonesian: pensiun (id)
• Irish: pinsean
• Italian: pensione (it) f, assegno (it) m
• Japanese: 年金 (ja) (ねんきん, nenkin)
• Kazakh: зейнетақы (zeinetaqy)
• Khmer: សោធន (km) (saothŭən)
• Korean: 연금(年金) (ko) (yeon'geum), 년금(年金) (ko) (nyeon'geum) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: бааракы (baarakı), пенсия (pensiya)
• Lao: ບຳນານ (bam nān)
• Latin: annuum n
• Latvian: pensija f
• Lithuanian: pensija f
• Macedonian: пензија f (penzija)
• Malay: pencen (Malay Peninsular), pensiun (Riau Islands)
• Malayalam: പെൻഷൻ (peṉṣaṉ), അടുത്തൂൺ (ml) (aṭuttūṇ)
• Maori: penihana
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сул цалин (sul calin), тэтгэвэр (mn) (tetgever)

• Norwegian: pensjon (no) m
• Ottoman Turkish: اوتراق (ōturāq)
• Persian: مستمری (fa) (mostamerri), حقوق بازنشستگی (hoquq-e bâz-nešastegi)
• Polish: emerytura (pl) f
• Portuguese: pensão (pt) f, aposentadoria (pt) f
• Romanian: pensie (ro) f
• Russian: пе́нсия (ru) f (pénsija), посо́бие (ru) n (posóbije) (gratuity, benefit)
• Scottish Gaelic: peinnsean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: миро̀вина f (Croatian), пе́нзија f

  Roman: miròvina (sh) f (Croatian), pénzija (sh) f

• Slovak: dôchodok m, penzia f
• Slovene: pokojnina f
• Spanish: pensión (es) f
• Swedish: pension (sv) c
• Tajik: нафака (nafaka), нафақа (nafaqa)
• Tamil: ஓய்வூதியம் (ta) (ōyvūtiyam)
• Thai: บำนาญ (th) (bam-naan)
• Turkish: emeklilik (tr), emekli maaşı (tr)
• Turkmen: pensiýa
• Ukrainian: пе́нсія f (pénsija)
• Urdu: پینشن f (penśan)
• Uyghur: نەپىقە (nepiqe)
• Uzbek: pensiya (uz), nafaqa (uz)
• Vietnamese: hưu bổng (vi) (休俸), lương hưu (糧休)
• Yoruba: owó ìfẹ̀yìntì

stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撫恤金／抚恤金 (fǔxùjīn)

• Dutch: pensioen (nl) n, lijfrente (nl)
• Finnish: määräraha (fi)
• Greek: επίδομα (el) n (epídoma), επιχορήγηση (el) f (epichorígisi), επιδότηση (el) f (epidótisi)
• Russian: посо́бие (ru) n (posóbije)

Verb

pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)

1. (transitive) To grant a pension to.
2. (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.

Synonyms

• (to force to retire): pension off

Derived terms

• pensionable

Translations

to grant a pension

• Bulgarian: отпускам пенсия (otpuskam pensija)
• Catalan: pensionar (ca)
• Dutch: pensioneren (nl), een pensioen verlenen
• Finnish: myöntää eläke
• French: pensioner (fr), pensionner (fr)
• Greek: συνταξιοδοτώ (el) (syntaxiodotó)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pensjonere

  Nynorsk: pensjonere

• Portuguese: pensionar
• Spanish: pensionar (es)

to force to retire

• Bulgarian: пенсионирам (pensioniram)
• Dutch: pensioneren (nl), met pensioen sturen
• Finnish: siirtää eläkkeelle
• German: pensionieren (public service), in den Ruhestand versetzen
• Greek: συνταξιοδοτώ (el) (syntaxiodotó)
• Hebrew: גמלה (he) (gimlah)
• Italian: pensionare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pensjonere

  Nynorsk: pensjonere

• Portuguese: aposentar (pt)

Etymology 2

From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃/, /pɑnˈsjoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

pension (plural pensions)

1. 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 not

2. (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Synonyms

• hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place

Hyponyms

• bed and breakfast, half-pension, full-pension

Coordinate terms

• inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board

Translations

boarding house

• Arabic: بَنْسِيُون m (bansiyūn)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنسيون m (bansiyon)

• Belarusian: пансіяна́т m (pansijanát), пансiён m (pansijón)
• Bulgarian: пансио́н (bg) m (pansión)
• Catalan: pensió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招待所 (zh) (zhāodàisuǒ), 膳宿公寓 (shànsù gōngyù)

• Czech: penzion (cs) m
• Dutch: pension (nl) n
• Esperanto: pensiono
• Finnish: matkakoti, majatalo (fi)
• French: pension (fr) f
• Georgian: პანსიონატი (ṗansionaṭi), პანსიონი (ṗansioni)
• German: Pension (de) f
• Greek: πανσιόν (el) f (pansión), οικοτροφείο (el) n (oikotrofeío)
• Hungarian: panzió (hu)
• Italian: pensione (it) f
• Japanese: ペンション (ja) (penshon), 寄宿舎 (ja) (きしゅくしゃ, kishukusha), 下宿屋 (げしゅくや, geshakuya)
• Korean: 펜션 (pensyeon), 하숙집 (ko) (hasukjip)
• Macedonian: пансио́н m (pansión)
• Norwegian: pensjonat (no) n
• Polish: pensjonat (pl) m
• Portuguese: pensão (pt) f
• Russian: пансиона́т (ru) m (pansionát), пансио́н (ru) m (pansión)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пансѝо̄н m

  Roman: pansìōn (sh) m

• Slovak: penzión m
• Slovene: penzion m
• Spanish: pensión (es) f
• Swedish: pensionat (sv) n
• Thai: หอพัก (hɔ̌ɔ-pák)
• Ukrainian: пансіона́т m (pansionát), пансіо́н m (pansión)

Anagrams

• nosepin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pension, itself from Latin pensio (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh, pay”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pension n (plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje n)

1. A pension, boarding house
2. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
3. The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals

Derived terms

• pensionboerderij
• pensiongast m
• pensionhouder m
• half pension n
• vol pension n

Related terms

• pensionaat n
• pensionair m
• pensionaris m

Descendants

• → Indonesian: pènsiun

Esperanto

Noun

pension

1. accusative singular of pensio

Estonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˈenʲsion/

Noun

pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)

1. pension

   riiklik pension ― state 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

• pensioniiga
• rahvapension
• toitjakaotuspension
• töövõimetuspension
• vanaduspension

 

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 French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pension f (plural pensions)

1. a pension, regularly received payment

   pension à taux plein

   full pension

2. a pension, boarding house
3. a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
4. board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)

Derived terms

• demi-pension
• fonds de pension
• pension alimentaire
• pensionner
• pensionnaire m
• pensionnat m
• pensionné m
• pension alimentaire
• pension d’état
• pension de retraite

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:

  Cyrillic script: пансѝо̄н

  Latin script: pansìōn

• → Ukrainian: пансіо́н (pansión)

Further reading

• “pension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• épinons, peinons, pionnes

Middle English

Noun

pension

1. Alternative form of pencioun

Old French

Noun

pension oblique singular, f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)

1. Alternative form of panssion

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pension.

Noun

pension n (plural pensioane)

1. boarding school

Declension

Declension of pension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pension	pensionul	(niște) pensioane	pensioanele
genitive/dative	(unui) pension	pensionului	(unor) pensioane	pensioanelor
vocative	pensionule		pensioanelor

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panˈɧuːn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pension c

1. pension, retirement

   att gå i pension

   to retire

2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
3. pension (a type of accommodation)

Declension

Declension of pension
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	pension	pensionen	pensioner	pensionerna
Genitive	pensions	pensionens	pensioners	pensionernas

Related terms

• folkpension
• förtidspension
• halvpension
• helpension
• pang
• pensionat
• pensionera
• pensionsfond
• pensionskassa
• pensionsmässig
• pensionsutbetalning
• pensionsålder
• pensionär
• premiepension
• sjukpension
• tilläggspension
• tjänstepension
• ålderspension

 

See also

• änkekassa
• pantertant
• passion
• pupillkassa

Anagrams

• pionens, spionen

Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

Noun

pension f (invariable)

1. pension