Etymology

responsa

R1E1S1P3O1N1S1A1

Today it means: A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. Full definition →

Latin respōnsa
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromrespōnsa
  2. English todayresponsa

Borrowed from Latin respōnsa, plural of respōnsum (“answer”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.