responses
応答
解説 Definition
responses は「応答」「返事」「反応」という意味です。response（応答、返事）の複数形で、質問や依頼、出来事に対する複数の返答や反応を表します。
Responses are multiple spoken, written, emotional, or physical reactions to questions, requests, situations, or events. In these examples, the word mainly refers to answers supplied by several people or to several answers collected in a survey or class activity.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
responses は response の規則的な複数形で、語末に -s を付け response → responses、発音は /rɪˈspɑːnsɪz/ のように /ɪz/ が加わる。responses to a survey「調査への回答」、students' responses「生徒たちの返答」のように、複数の問いや人から返ってくる内容を思い浮かべる。
Responses is the plural of response. Add -s in spelling, but because response ends with a sibilant /s/ sound, the plural ending is pronounced as an extra syllable /ɪz/: response → responses. Picture a survey being sent out and many answers coming back; those returned answers are the responses. Useful combinations are responses to a survey, students’ responses, and short but clear responses. Response is the noun, while respond is the related verb, so someone responds to a question and their answer is a response.
例文
We received many responses to the survey.
そのアンケートには多くの回答が寄せられました。
Her responses were short but clear.
彼女の返答は短いですが明確でした。
The teacher read the students' responses carefully.
先生は生徒たちの回答を注意深く読みました。
responses の類義語・関連語
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responses の語源・成り立ち Etymology
responses は response に複数語尾 -s が付いた形で、response は古フランス語 respons を経てラテン語 respondere に由来します。re-「返して」+ spondere「約束する」から、もとは「返答を約して返す」感覚で、そこから「応答」の意味になりました。関連語は respond、correspond です。
Responses consists of response plus the plural ending -s. Response entered English through Old French respons and ultimately comes from Latin responsum, the neuter past participle of respondere, “to answer.” Respondere is traditionally analyzed from re-, “back,” and spondere, “to pledge or promise.” The historical sense of making a pledged answer developed into the broader modern meanings of an answer, reply, or reaction to a stimulus or event.
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