Etymograph

English

riposte

Riposte comes from Italian risposta ‘answer, reply, response, feedback’, and goes back to Late Latin respondo.

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CErespondoas respondere
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentrispondere‘to respond’
  3. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentrisposta‘answer, reply, response, feedback’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentriposte
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1961same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CErespondoas respondere
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentrispondere‘to respond’
  3. Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentrisposta‘answer, reply, response, feedback’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentriposte
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1961same form

Earliest quotation: 1961, Talking of trains: “This face-saving reminds us of some American ripostes a…”

Linked words

through Late Latin respondo

respond, 1 more

Today it means

noun A thrust given in return after parrying an attack.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Late Latin respondo / riposte

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