7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
verb grant a pension to
originFrom 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”). Doublet of pensione.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0