reporter

• reportor (obsolete)
• reportour (obsolete)

From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpoətə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

reporter (plural reporters)

1. Someone or something that reports.

   The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.

2. A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
3. A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
4. (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
5. (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

• → Catalan: repòrter
• → Greek: ρεπόρτερ (repórter)

• repertor, rereport

From reportar +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.purˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.porˈte]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.poɾˈteɾ]

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)

1. reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)

   Synonym: repòrter

2. informant, accuser, denouncer

reporter (feminine reportera, masculine plural reporters, feminine plural reporteres)

1. who informs (as an informant), who denounces

• “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reporter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English reporter.

• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

reporter

1. someone or something that reports
2. a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

reporter

1. imperativ of reportere

• reportage
• reportere

From re- +‎ porter.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

reporter

1. (literally) to carry something back to where it was
2. (literally) to wear again
3. to transfer (an emotion)

   reporter son amour sur quelqu’un ― to transfer one's love to somebody

4. to put back; to put off; to postpone

   Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.

   After having been postponed numerous times, the exams finally took place.

   • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 113:

     Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d’attendre la fin de l’enquête sur le violeur pour s’amuser.

     Graham had put back the party, suggesting to wait until the investigation about the rapist was over to have fun.

5. (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time

   Il faut se reporter au mois dernier pour comprendre.

   We have to go back in time a month to understand.

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to refer; to check

   Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4.

   To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.

7. (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward

   Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!

   That idiot forgot to carry over a 3!

Borrowed from English reporter.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)

1. a news reporter; a journalist

• The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.

• “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

• IPA^(key): /reˈpɔr.ter/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔrter
• Hyphenation: re‧pòr‧ter

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)

1. reporter (journalist)

reporter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

reporter m (plural reporters)

1. Alternative form of riporter: reporter

Borrowed from English reporter.

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)

1. (journalism) a reporter

• krigsreporter

• reportasje

• “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English reporter.

reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)

1. (journalism) a reporter

• krigsreporter

• reportasje

• “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

re- +‎ porter.^[1]

reporter

1. to bring back
2. to gain; to get (take possession of)

   Judas reportat le argent dount Deux estoyt vendu

   Judas got the money of which God was sold

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Internationalism; compare German Reporter, Russian репортёр (reportjór), Spanish reportero, ultimately from English reporter.

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrtɛr
• Syllabification: re‧por‧ter

reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)

1. (journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)

   Hypernym: dziennikarz

• reporter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reporter in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French reporter.

reporter m (plural reporteri)

1. reporter, journalist

Borrowed from English reporter.

• IPA^(key): /repǒrteːr/
• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

reporter c

1. reporter

• rapport
• reportage

• reporter in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker