# reporter
## English
### Alternative forms

* reportor (obsolete)
* reportour (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɹɪˈpoətə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

### Noun

reporter (plural reporters)
* Someone or something that reports.
    The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
* A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
* A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
* (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
* (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

* case reporter
* court reporter
* cub reporter
* law reporter
* mandated reporter
* mandatory reporter
* police reporter
* sideline reporter

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations
### See also

* rapporteur

### Anagrams

* repertor, rereport

## Catalan
### Etymology

From reportar +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [rə.purˈte]
* IPA: (Balearic) [rə.porˈte]
* IPA: (Valencia) [re.poɾˈteɾ]

### Noun

reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)
* reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)
    Synonym: repòrter
* informant, accuser, denouncer

### Adjective

reporter (feminine reportera, masculine plural reporters, feminine plural reporteres)
* 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, 2025
* “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
* someone or something that reports
* a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television

## Danish
### Noun

reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)
* (journalism) a reporter, a journalist

#### Inflection
### Verb

reporter
* imperativ of reportere

#### Related terms

* reportage
* reportere

## French
### Etymology 1

From re- +‎ porter.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

reporter
* (literally) to carry something back to where it was
* (literally) to wear again
* to transfer (an emotion)
    reporter son amour sur quelqu’un ― to transfer one's love to somebody
* 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.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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: /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/

#### Noun

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)
* 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

* correspondant
* journaliste
* reporteur

##### Derived terms

* grand reporter
* journaliste reporter d’images
* reporteur

#### See also

* rapporteur

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reˈpɔr.ter/
* Rhymes: -ɔrter
* Hyphenation: re‧pòr‧ter

### Noun

reporter m or f by sense (invariable)
* reporter (journalist)

### References

* ↑ reporter in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Latin
### Verb

reporter
* first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/

### Noun

reporter m (plural reporters)
* Alternative form of riporter: reporter

#### Related terms

* raportaġ
* rapport (riport, laport)
* rrapporta

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* krigsreporter

#### Related terms

* reportasje

### References

* “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

re- +‎ porter.

### Verb

reporter
* to bring back
* to gain; to get (take possession of)
    Judas reportat le argent dount Deux estoyt venduJudas 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

* ↑ Etymology and history of “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrtɛr
* Syllabification: re‧por‧ter

### Noun

reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)
* (journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)
    Hypernym: dziennikarz

#### Derived terms

* reporterstwo

#### Related terms

* reportersko
* 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)
* reporter, journalist

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English reporter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /repǒrteːr/
* Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter

### Noun

repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)
* reporter (journalist who investigates)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.

### Noun

reporter c
* reporter

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* rapport
* reportage

### Further reading

* reporter in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker