repondero

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

rĕ-pondĕro, āre, v. a.,

to weigh in return; trop., to repay , return (late Lat.): studii vicissitudinem tibi, Sid. Ep. 1, 4 fin. : gloriam tibi, id. ib. 5, 1: pro falsitate alicui veritatem, Claud. Mam. Stat. An. 3, 15.