compensatio

Latin

Etymology

From compēnsō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

compēnsātiō f (genitive compēnsātiōnis); third declension

1. weighing (of factors), balancing, equalizing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compēnsātiō	compēnsātiōnēs
genitive	compēnsātiōnis	compēnsātiōnum
dative	compēnsātiōnī	compēnsātiōnibus
accusative	compēnsātiōnem	compēnsātiōnēs
ablative	compēnsātiōne	compēnsātiōnibus
vocative	compēnsātiō	compēnsātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: compensació
• English: compensation
• French: compensation
• Italian: compensazione
• Polish: kompensacja
• Portuguese: compensação
• Romanian: compensație
• Russian: компенса́ция (kompensácija)
• Spanish: compensación

References

• “compensatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compensatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “compensatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “compensatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “compensatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin