responsum

Latin

Etymology

From respondeō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /resˈpon.sum/, [rɛs̠ˈpõːs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /resˈpon.sum/, [resˈpɔnsum]

Noun

respōnsum n (genitive respōnsī); second declension

1. answer, response

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	respōnsum	respōnsa
Genitive	respōnsī	respōnsōrum
Dative	respōnsō	respōnsīs
Accusative	respōnsum	respōnsa
Ablative	respōnsō	respōnsīs
Vocative	respōnsum	respōnsa

Descendants

• Catalan: respons
• Dutch: respons
• English: response
• French: réponse
• Italian: responso

• Norman: rêponse
• Portuguese: responso
• Romanian: răspuns
• Spanish: responso

Verb

(deprecated template usage) respōnsum

1. accusative supine of respondeō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) respōnsum

1. nominative neuter singular of respōnsus
2. accusative masculine singular of respōnsus
3. accusative neuter singular of respōnsus
4. vocative neuter singular of respōnsus

References

• “responsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “responsum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• responsum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• responsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to extract an answer from some one: responsum ab aliquo ferre, auferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to give an oracular response: responsum dare (vid. sect. VIII. 5, note Note to answer...), respondere