guerdon

Meanings

Noun

• A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.

Verb

• To give such a reward to.

Origin

• From Middle English guerdon, guerdoun, gardone, from Old French guerdon, guerredon, guarredon, werdon, from Medieval Latin widerdonum, alteration of *widerlonum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlon, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin donum.