# recompense
## English
### Alternative forms

* recompence (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/
** Audio (Southern California):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛns

### Etymology 1

From Middle English recompense, borrowed from Old French recompense or Medieval Latin recompensa.

#### Noun

recompense (countable and uncountable, plural recompenses)
* An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
* That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
    He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 23:O let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.

##### Synonyms

* meed
* payback
* recompence
* restitution

##### Related terms

* compensate
* recompensate

##### Translations

Arabic: مُكَافَأَة f (mukāfaʔa), بَدَل (ar) m (badal)
Bengali: ক্ষতিপূরণ (bn) (khotipuron), বদলা (bn) (bodola), জাযা (bn) (jaja), এনাম (bn) (enam)
Bulgarian: обезщетение (bg) n (obezštetenie), компенсация (bg) f (kompensacija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: odškodnění n, náhrada (cs) f
Egyptian: (ḏbꜣw m)
Finnish: korvaus (fi), vahingonkorvaus
French: récompense (fr) f
German: Entschädigung (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌹 n (andalauni), 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 f (mizdō)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀμοιβή f (amoibḗ)
Icelandic: bætur f pl, þóknun f
Maori: whakaea, utunga whakaea
Middle English: quytaunce, warisoun
Norwegian: erstatning, vederlag
Ottoman Turkish: جزا (ceza)
Polish: rekompensata (pl) f
Portuguese: compensação (pt) f
Russian: компенса́ция (ru) f (kompensácija), возмеще́ние (ru) n (vozmeščénije) (убы́тков (ubýtkov), поте́рь (potérʹ), etc.)
Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìoladh m
Slovak: odškodnenie n, náhrada f
Spanish: recompensa (es) f
Turkish: mukafat, ödül (tr), bedel (tr)
Yiddish: גוטמאַכונג f (gutmakhung), ווידערגוטמאַכונג f (vidergutmakhung) :

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

recompense (third-person singular simple present recompenses, present participle recompensing, simple past and past participle recompensed)
* To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […]
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:He cannot recompense me better.
* To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
    The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
* (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:17:Recompense to no man evil for evil.

##### Synonyms

* recompensate

##### Derived terms

* recompensation

##### Translations
## Old French
### Etymology

From recompenser.

### Noun

recompense oblique singular, f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)
* recompense; compensation

#### Descendants

* English: recompense

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.si/ [he.kõˈpẽ.si]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.si/ [he.kõˈpẽ.si]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.si/ [χe.kõˈpẽ.si]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.se/ [he.kõˈpẽ.se]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.kõˈpẽ.sɨ/

### Verb

recompense
* inflection of recompensar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

recompense
* inflection of recompensar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative