repayment

C2+ Topic:Personal Finance

Also spelled re-payment

US /riˈpeɪmənt/ UK /riˈpeɪmənt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the act of paying back money owed, or an amount paid back

She set up a monthly repayment plan to clear her student loan.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the act of paying back... reimbursementrefund settlement recompense return

Opposites

loan advance

Word family

Related forms repay pay payment

Etymology

From repay + -ment; repay from re- ('back') + pay, the latter from Old French paier, from Latin pacare ('to appease'), from pax ('peace').

pacare Latin pax Latin

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Topics

Personal Finance Money & Finance Word Formation & Derivatives

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# repayment

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /riˈpeɪmənt/
**IPA (UK):** /riˈpeɪmənt/

## Meanings
1. the act of paying back money owed, or an amount paid back

## Examples
- She set up a monthly repayment plan to clear her student loan.

## Synonyms
- reimbursement
- refund
- settlement
- recompense
- return

## Antonyms
- loan
- advance

## Related Forms
- repay
- pay
- payment

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: pacare
- Root: pax

## Etymology
From repay + -ment; repay from re- ('back') + pay, the latter from Old French paier, from Latin pacare ('to appease'), from pax ('peace').

## AI Etymology
Repayment comes from repay + -ment; repay from re- ('back') + pay, the latter from Old French paier, from Latin pacare ('to appease'), from pax ('peace'). The historical chain includes Latin pacare and Latin pax. Older glosses in the chain include "back", "to appease", and "peace", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, repayment is best read as compound, suffixal formation, and borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "the act of paying back money owed, or an amount paid back". related forms include repay, pay, and payment. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Personal Finance
- Money & Finance
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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