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

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.

journalist

From reportar +‎ -er.

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

  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

From English reporter.

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

From re- +‎ porter.

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. (pronominal) 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!
infinitive simple reporter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple reportant/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle reporté/ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simpletenses) present reporte/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reportes/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reporte/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reportons/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ reportez/ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ reportent/ʁə.pɔʁt/
imperfect reportais/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ reportais/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ reportait/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/ reportions/ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ reportiez/ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ reportaient/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛ/
past historic2 reportai/ʁə.pɔʁ.te/ reportas/ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ reporta/ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ reportâmes/ʁə.pɔʁ.tam/ reportâtes/ʁə.pɔʁ.tat/ reportèrent/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
future reporterai/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ reporteras/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ reportera/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ reporterons/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ reporterez/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ reporteront/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional reporterais/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ reporterais/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ reporterait/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ reporterions/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ reporteriez/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ reporteraient/ʁə.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compoundtenses) present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simpletenses) present reporte/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reportes/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reporte/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reportions/ʁə.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ reportiez/ʁə.pɔʁ.tje/ reportent/ʁə.pɔʁt/
imperfect2 reportasse/ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ reportasses/ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/ reportât/ʁə.pɔʁ.ta/ reportassions/ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ reportassiez/ʁə.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ reportassent/ʁə.pɔʁ.tas/
(compoundtenses) past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative tu nous vous
simple reporte/ʁə.pɔʁt/ reportons/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ reportez/ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
compound simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Borrowed from English reporter.

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)

  1. a news reporter; a journalist

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. reporter (journalist)

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

reporter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

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

Borrowed from English reporter.

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

  1. (journalism) a reporter

From 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.

| | simple | compound | | | | | | | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | infinitive | reporter | avoir reporté | | | | | | | gerund | en reportant | gerund of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | present participle | reportant | | | | | | | | past participle | reporté | | | | | | | | person | singular | plural | | | | | | | first | second | third | first | second | third | | | | indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | | | simpletenses | present | report | reportes | reporte | reportons | reportez | reportent | | imperfect | reportoie, reporteie, reportoe, reporteve | reportoies, reporteies, reportoes, reporteves | reportoit, reporteit, reportot, reporteve | reportiiens, reportiens | reportiiez, reportiez | reportoient, reporteient, reportoent, reportevent | | | preterite | reportai | reportas | reporta | reportames | reportastes | reporterent | | | future | reporterai | reporteras | reportera | reporterons | reporteroiz, reportereiz, reporterez | reporteront | | | conditional | reporteroie, reportereie | reporteroies, reportereies | reporteroit, reportereit | reporteriiens, reporteriens | reporteriiez, reporteriez | reporteroient, reportereient | | | compoundtenses | present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | | | simpletenses | present | report | reporz | report | reportons | reportez | reportent | | imperfect | reportasse | reportasses | reportast | reportissons, reportissiens | reportissoiz, reportissez, reportissiez | reportassent | | | compoundtenses | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | | | — | reporte | — | reportons | reportez | — | | |

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

reporterzy

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

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

Borrowed from French reporter.

reporter m (plural reporteri)

  1. reporter, journalist

Borrowed from English reporter.

repòrtēr m anim (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)

  1. reporter (journalist who investigates)

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

reporter c

  1. reporter