Word Origin Summary

Responsus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• réponse

  French · inherited from

• response

  Middle French · inherited from

• response

  French · derived from

• rêponse

  Norman · inherited from

• repons

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• responsible

  English · derived from

• responsável

  Portuguese · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root