compense

See also: compensé

English

Etymology

From French compenser. See compensate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛns/
• Rhymes: -ɛns

Verb

compense (third-person singular simple present compenses, present participle compensing, simple past and past participle compensed)

1. (obsolete) To compensate.
   • May 2 1623, Francis Bacon, letter to Mr. Tobie Matthew

     I hope, if any thing want in the speed of time, it will be compensed in the fruit of time, that all may sort to the best.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɑ̃s/

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Verb

compense

1. inflection of compenser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈpẽ.si/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈpẽ.si/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈpẽ.se/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõˈpẽ.sɨ/

• Hyphenation: com‧pen‧se

Verb

compense

1. inflection of compensar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈpense/ [kõmˈpẽn.se]
• Rhymes: -ense
• Syllabification: com‧pen‧se

Verb

compense

1. inflection of compensar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative