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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).

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.]

regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services

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.

to grant a pension

to force to retire

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

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

boarding house

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

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

pension

  1. accusative singular of pensio

Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)

  1. pension
    riiklik pensionstate pension
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
  • 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)

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

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)

pension

  1. Alternative form of pencioun

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

  1. Alternative form of panssion

Borrowed from French pension.

pension n (plural pensioane)

  1. boarding school

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)

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

pension f (invariable)

  1. pension