reciprocate

Signification (Anglais)

1. (transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
2. (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
3. (intransitive) To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
4. (intransitive) To counter, retort or retaliate.

Concepts

donner en retour

réciproquer

rendre la pareille

payer de retour

en faire autant

répéter

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rendre

Synonymes

repay

interchange

pay back

requite

retaliate

exchange

reply

respond

reward

render

intersperse

permute

react

reciprocating

recompense

repeat

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replacement

reprisal

reprisals

requital

return

revenge

swop

take revenge

trade

traverse

change for

renumerate

repay a favour

trade for

alternate

double replacement

answer

barter

commute

compensate

correlate

correspond

counterchange

give back

interconversion

Traductions

beantwoorden

vergelden

terugdoen

erwidern

ανταποδίδω

ανταλλάσσω

corresponder

contraccambiare

tekabül

ripagare

vergelten

ricambiare

teruggeven

ανταποκρίνομαι

hin- und herbewegen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsɪpɹəˌkeɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Latin recīprocātus, perfect passive participle of recīprocō (“to move back and forth”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from reciprocus (“back an forth, reciprocal, alternating”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), itself possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”). See also reciprocal. Compare French réciproquer.