reporter

English

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reporter

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• reportor (obsolete)
• reportour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• repertor, rereport

Catalan

Etymology

From reportar +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)

1. reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)

   Synonym: repòrter

2. informant, accuser, denouncer

Adjective

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

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

Further reading

• “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.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English reporter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

Noun

reporter

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

Danish

Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)

1. (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

Inflection

Verb

reporter

1. imperativ of reportere

Related terms

• reportage
• reportere

French

Etymology 1

From re- +‎ porter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/

• audio

  (file)

Verb

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!

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/

Noun

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)

1. a news reporter; a journalist

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)

1. reporter (journalist)

References

Latin

Verb

reporter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

Noun

reporter m (plural reporters)

1. Alternative form of riporter: reporter

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

reporter

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

• krigsreporter

Related terms

• reportasje

References

• “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

re- +‎ porter.

Verb

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

Conjugation

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.

References

• reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

reporter

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reporter.

Noun

reporter m (plural reporteri)

1. reporter, journalist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

Noun

reporter c

1. reporter

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• rapport
• reportage

Further reading

• reporter in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker