pensyon
Cebuano
Etymology
From English pension, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendere (“to weigh”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pen‧syo‧na‧do
Noun
pensyon
- a pension; 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