recompense

Etymology 1

From Middle English recompense, borrowed from Old French recompense or Medieval Latin recompensa.

noun

1. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
2. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
   He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
   O let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 23

Etymology 2

From Middle English recompensen, borrowed from Old French recompenser, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”).

verb

1. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
   She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […] 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
2. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
   The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
3. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.