responder

respond +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɑndɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈspɒndə/
• 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)

1. to answer, to reply

• resposta

responder

1. to answer

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

From Old Spanish responder, inherited from Latin respondēre (likely via Late Latin respondere).[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 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. to answer, to reply

   Synonyms: contestar, replicar

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