"responsa" meaning in English

See responsa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: responsum [singular]
Etymology: Latin respōnsa, plural of respōnsum (“answer”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|respōnsa}} Latin respōnsa Head templates: {{en-noun|p|sg=responsum}} responsa pl (normally plural, singular responsum)
  1. A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. Wikipedia link: responsa Tags: plural, plural-normally
    Sense id: en-responsa-en-noun-jamgUKLH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for responsa meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "respōnsa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin respōnsa",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin respōnsa, plural of respōnsum (“answer”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "responsum",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "responsum"
      },
      "expansion": "responsa pl (normally plural, singular responsum)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them."
      ],
      "id": "en-responsa-en-noun-jamgUKLH",
      "links": [
        [
          "decision",
          "decision"
        ],
        [
          "ruling",
          "ruling"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ],
        [
          "scholar",
          "scholar"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "responsa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "responsa"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "respōnsa"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin respōnsa",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin respōnsa, plural of respōnsum (“answer”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "responsum",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "responsum"
      },
      "expansion": "responsa pl (normally plural, singular responsum)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decision",
          "decision"
        ],
        [
          "ruling",
          "ruling"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ],
        [
          "scholar",
          "scholar"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "responsa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "responsa"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.