responsabilità

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From responsabile +‎ -ità, modeled after similar formation of French responsabilité and English responsibility in the late 18th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /res.pon.sa.bi.liˈta/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: re‧spon‧sa‧bi‧li‧tà

Noun

responsabilità f

  1. responsibility (duty for which someone is accountable)
  2. responsibility (state of being accountable)
    Antonym: irresponsabilità
  3. (law) liability
  4. blame, fault
    Synonym: colpa
    gli hanno dato la piena responsabilità per la crisi
    they blamed him fully for the crisis
    (literally, “they assigned the full blame to him for the crisis”)

Further reading

  • responsabilità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /respuŋsabiliˈta/

Noun

responsabilità f

  1. responsibility
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