responso

Ido

Etymology

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Noun

responso (plural responsi)

  1. responsibility

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin respōnsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /resˈpɔn.so/, /resˈpon.so/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔnso, -onso
  • Hyphenation: re‧spòn‧so, re‧spón‧so

Noun

responso m (plural responsi)

  1. response, answer, reply
  2. verdict

References

  1. ^ responso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

respōnsō (present infinitive respōnsāre, perfect active respōnsāvī, supine respōnsātum); first conjugation

  1. (poetic) to answer, reply, respond
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

respōnsō

  1. dative/ablative singular of respōnsum

Etymology 3

Verb

respōnsō

  1. (Old Latin) first-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of respondeō
Usage notes

See explanation at respondeō.

References

  • responso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • responso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • responso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /resˈponso/ [resˈpõn.so]
  • Rhymes: -onso
  • Syllabification: res‧pon‧so

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin respōnsum.

Alternative forms

Noun

responso m (plural responsos)

  1. prayer for the dead
  2. (colloquial) telling-off; bollocking
  3. (rare) response

Etymology 2

Verb

responso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of responsar

Further reading

  • responso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
  • Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “responso”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]