Rente

Borrowed from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛntə/

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Rente f (genitive Rente, plural Renten)

1. pension, retirement pay

   in Rente ― on retirement pay

Note that the terms Rente and Pension have a slightly different meaning in Germany and Austria.

Note also that Rente is a false friend and does not mean “rent”. The general word for “rent” is Miete.

• Pension

• “Rente” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Rente” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Rente” in Duden online
• Rente on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Rente”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891