reporter

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From reportar + -er.

Pronunciation

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

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

French

Etymology 1

From re- + porter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
  • (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’unto 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
Synonyms
Derived terms

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Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. reporter (journalist)

References

  1. reporter in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

Noun

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

  1. (journalism) a reporter

Derived terms

References

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

References

Old French

Etymology

re- + porter.[1]

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

  1. Etymology and history of reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

reporterzy

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
  • (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

noun
  • reporterstwo
adverb
  • reportersko
nouns
  • reporteria
  • reporterskość

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

Declension of reporter 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative reporter reportern reportrar reportrarna
Genitive reporters reporterns reportrars reportrarnas

Derived terms

  • allmänreporter
  • deskreporter
  • förstereporter
  • hovreporter
  • in­bäddad reporter
  • inrikesreporter
  • kriminalreporter
  • nyhetsreporter
  • radioreporter
  • reporterblock
  • reporterfotograf
  • reporterteam
  • sportreporter
  • stjärnreporter
  • tv-reporter
  • utrikesreporter

Further reading

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