responsor

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin respōnsor. First attested in the a. 1649. By surface analysis, clipping of responsory. === Pronunciation === enPR: rĭ-spŏn′sər (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə/ (General American) IPA(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ɹɪˈspɔn.səɹ/, (cot–caught merger) /ɹɪˈspɑn.səɹ/ (Canada) IPA(key): (standard) /ɹɪˈspɒn.səɹ/, (dialectal) /ɹɪˈspɑn.səɹ/ (Australian) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɔn.sə/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɹəˈspɒn.sə/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɔn.səɾ/ (India) IPA(key): /ɾɪˈspɔn.sɜː(ɾ)/, /ɾɪˈspɔn.səɾ/ Rhymes: -ɒnsə(ɹ) Homophone: responser Hyphenation: re‧​spons‧or === Noun === responsor (plural responsors) (electronics) A receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:responsor. A person who is assigned responsibility for daily care of a person with a chronic illness and for working with the health care professionals. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:responsor. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “responsor, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 24 March 2026. “responsor, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. “responsor, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. “responsor”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, retrieved 24 March 2026 “responsor, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “responsor, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 24 March 2026, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN. === Anagrams === sponsorer == Ido == === Verb === responsor future infinitive of responsar == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛsˈpõː.sɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [resˈpɔn.sor] Hyphenation: res‧pōn‧sor === Etymology 1 === From respondeō + -tor. ==== Noun ==== respōnsor m (genitive respōnsōris); third declension one that answers or replies ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== respōnsor first-person singular present passive indicative of respōnsō === Further reading === “rēsponsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press respōnsor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2353 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “responsor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC “responsor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1353, column 2. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “respōnsor”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 訟師／讼师 (sòngshī); 保人 (bǎorén)] "RESPONSOR", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)