responder

respond +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɒndə/, /ɹəˈspɒndə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɑndɚ/, /ɹəˈspɑndɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɔndə/
• Hyphenation: re‧spond‧er

responder (plural responders)

1. One who responds.
   • 2014, Geoffrey N. Leech, The Pragmatics of Politeness, page 31:

     As Levinson (1983: 334) points out, signs of dispreference in turn taking include: (a) Delays: notably a pause, or a time gap, before the responder replies to the preceding turn […]

2. A person who responds to an emergency situation or other summons.

   911 responders arrived at the scene within five minutes after the call.

• responser
• responsor

• ponderers, reponders

From Latin respondēre, present active infinitive of respondeō.

responder

1. (transitive) to respond

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “responder”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin respondēre, likely via Late Latin respondere.[1]

responder

1. respond

• respuesta

From Old Galician-Portuguese responder, from Latin respondēre (likely via Late Latin respondere).[1]

responder (first-person singular present respondo, first-person singular preterite respondín, past participle respondido)
responder (first-person singular present respondo, first-person singular preterite respondim or respondi, past participle respondido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to answer, to reply

• resposta

responder

1. to answer

Inherited from Latin respondēre (likely via Late Latin respondĕre).[1]

responder (first-person singular present respondo, first-person singular preterite respuse, past participle respuso)

1. to reply, to answer
   • c. 1280, Alfonso X, General Estoria, tercera parte, (published by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja and Bautista Horcajada Diezma, 1994, Madrid: Gredos, page 344):

     […] e si respuende que non quier con el morar & que quiere maldizer el nonbre de Jhesu Cristo e lo quiere traer a la su carrera mala e a otro pecado mortal, dara la Iglesia a este otro licençia que case.

     [in the context of a man converted from Judaism to Christianity, regarding his Jewish wife] […] and if she replies that she doesn't want to live with him anymore, and that she's willing to curse the name of Jesus Christ and take him [back] to her bad ways or some other mortal sin, the Church shall give him a licence to marry [again].

   • c. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria, primera parte, (published by Pedro Sánchez Prieto-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     E respusol ella: - Beve, mio señor, cuanto quisieres.

     And she replied to him, "Drink, milord, as much as you want."

In stem-stressed forms, the present is attested with diphthongization, respuendo, but is very rare. Same is true of the past participle repuso.

• Spanish: responder

From Old Galician-Portuguese responder, from Latin respondēre (“answer”) (likely via Late Latin respondere),[1] from re- + spondeō (“promise”).

• Hyphenation: res‧pon‧der

responder (first-person singular present respondo, first-person singular preterite respondi, past participle respondido)

1. to answer; to reply (to give a written or spoken response)

   Synonyms: replicar, retorquir, retrucar

   Antonym: calar

2. (intransitive) to retort frequently

   Synonym: retrucar

3. to correspond to (to be equivalent to)

   Synonyms: corresponder, equivaler

4. to counterattack

   Synonyms: contratacar, reagir, revidar

5. (intransitive) to be responsible (for something)
6. (law, intransitive) to be a defendant

Inherited from Old Spanish responder, inherited from Latin respondēre (likely via Late Latin respondĕre).[1] The original past participle was respuso or repuso in Old Spanish.[2] The expected diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/ is found in Asturian responder (that is, respuendo) and sporadically in Old Spanish as well.

• IPA^(key): /responˈdeɾ/ [res.põn̪ˈd̪eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: res‧pon‧der

responder (first-person singular present respondo, first-person singular preterite respondí, past participle respondido)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to answer, to reply

   Synonym: contestar

   responde al nombre de ― his/her name is

   Respondí rápido tus preguntas. ― I answered your questions fast.

   Me gusta que respondas así. ― I like that you give answers like that.

   Lo siento, no te pude responder la llamada. ― Sorry, I couldn't answer your (phone) call.

   Respóndele a tu madre, no te quedes callada. ― Reply to your mother, don't stay silent.

2. (intransitive, transitive) to talk back, to answer back (to respond defiantly and inappropriately)

   Synonyms: argumentar, rebatir, replicar

   Mira cómo responde la niña de malcriada. ― Notice how the girl talks back, she's so spoiled.

3. (intransitive) to respond, to react (to someone else's actions)

   La audiencia respondía bien a sus chistes. ― The audience was responding well to his jokes.

   Los revolucionarios respondimos con más violencia ante su represión. ― We the revolutionaries, facing their repression, responded with more violence.

4. (intransitive) to answer for, to be responsible for, vouch for (with por)

   Synonym: responsabilizarse por

   Necesito un fiador que responda por mí. ― I need a guarantor to vouch for me.

5. (intransitive, medicine) to react, to respond (to a treatment, with a)

   El paciente no respondió bien al tratamiento. ― The patient didn't respond well to the treatment.

• “responder”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014