repertor

• (obsolete): repertour

From Latin repertor, from repertus (“found”), from reperīre (“to find”), from re- (“again, back”) + parere (“to bear, to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”), + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”). Influenced by Middle French repertour (“inventor, discoverer”). Cognate with repertible, repertitious.

repertor (plural repertors)

1. (rare, obsolete) A discoverer.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 31:

     Let others dispute whether Anah was the Inventour, or onely the Repertour of Mules.

• “† repertor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• reporter, rereport

From reperiō (“I find, discover, invent”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, forming agent nouns), q.v.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

repertor m (genitive repertōris, feminine repertrīx); third declension

1. One who finds something, particularly:
   1. An originator, a deviser.
   2. A discoverer.
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.761–762:

        melle pater fruitur, lībōque īnfūsa calentī
        iūre repertōrī candida mella damus

        Father is delighted by honey, and justly do we offer to discoverer the purest honeys poured on warm cakes.
        (See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)

   3. An inventor.

      Synonym: inventor

2. (figuratively) An author.

Third-declension noun.

• → English: repertor
• → French: repertour

• “repertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

repertor n (plural repertorii)

1. alternative form of repertoriu