responsabilità

Italian

Alternative forms

• responabilità (misspelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re.spon.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. 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