"responsibility" in seven languages
Meaningresponsibility
Spanish
responsabilidad
/responsabiliˈdad/
fem.learned
French
responsabilité
/ʁɛspɔ̃sabilite/
fem.learned
Italian
responsabilità
/responsabiliˈta/
fem.learned
Portuguese
responsabilidade
/hespõsabiliˈdadʒi/
fem.learned
Romanian
responsabilitate
/responsabiliˈtate/
fem.learned
Catalan
responsabilitat
/rəspunsəbiliˈtat/
fem.learned
English
responsibility
/ɹɪˌspɑnsəˈbɪləti/
from Latin/French · English responsible (French responsable) + -ity
English → ItalianresponsibilityresponsabilitàCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
RESPONDĒRE‘to answer, pledge in return’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
To be responsible is to be able to answer for something (RESPONDĒRE). The suffix lines up neatly: -dad, -té, -tà, -ty.
English relatives: respond, response, responsible, sponsor
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In a sentence
- esEs tu responsabilidad.
- frC'est ta responsabilité.
- itÈ una tua responsabilità.
- ptÉ responsabilidade sua.
- roEste responsabilitatea ta.
- caÉs responsabilitat teva.
- enIt's your responsibility.
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