resposta

See also: respósta

Catalan

Etymology

From respondre, corrupted by posta, feminine past participle of pondre. Compare Asturian respuesta, Galician resposta, Italian risposta, Portuguese resposta, Spanish respuesta.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Noun

resposta f (plural respostes)

1. answer, response

Related terms

• respondre

Participle

resposta f sg

1. feminine singular of respost

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese resposta, reposta, from responder, corrupted by posta, feminine past participle of põer (Galician pór). Compare Asturian respuesta, Catalan resposta, Italian risposta, Portuguese resposta, Spanish respuesta.

Noun

resposta f (plural respostas)

1. answer, response

   Synonym: contestación

   Antonyms: cuestión, interrogación

Italian

Participle

resposta f sg

1. feminine singular of resposto

Anagrams

• portasse, pressato, prostesa, spostare, sposterà, sterposa, traspose

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese resposta, reposta, from responder, corrupted by posta, feminine past participle of põer (Portuguese pôr). Compare Asturian and Spanish respuesta, Catalan and Galician resposta and Italian risposta.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁesˈpɔs.tɐ/ [hesˈpɔs.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁesˈpɔs.tɐ/ [hesˈpɔs.tɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeʃˈpɔʃ.tɐ/ [χeʃˈpɔʃ.tɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨʃˈpɔʃ.tɐ/

• (North Coast Dialect) IPA^(key): /hɛs.ˈpɔʃ.tɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: res‧pos‧ta

Noun

resposta f (plural respostas)

1. answer, response

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:resposta.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: respósta

Further reading

• “resposta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “resposta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026