Recompensible

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Able to be repaid, rewarded, or made good through compensation for a loss or injury
2. Describing something that can be offset by payment or by some other form of restitution
3. Open to recompense, meaning that a harm or debt can be set right by giving something back

Etymology: The core image is weighing. Its root, Latin "compensare," meant "to weigh together" or balance one thing against another, built from "com-" ("together") and "pensare," "to weigh." Something that is "recompensible" is one whose loss or harm can be weighed back and balanced with payment, so the idea of a scale sits at its center. The word is built from three parts. The prefix "re-" carries the sense of giving back in return, the stem comes through Old French "recompenser" from Late Latin "recompensare," and the suffix "-ible," from Latin "-ibilis," means "capable of being." "Recompensible" is therefore a regular derivative of "recompense," formed on the same pattern as words such as "compensable."

Synonyms: recompensable