repertor
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete): repertour
Etymology
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.
Noun
repertor (plural repertors)
- (rare, obsolete) A discoverer.
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, p. 31:
- Let others dispute whether Anah was the Inventour, or onely the Repertour of Mules.
- 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, p. 31:
References
- “† repertor, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Anagrams
- reporter, rereport
Latin
Etymology
From reperiō (“I find, discover, invent”) + -tor (“-er”, forming agent nouns), q.v.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈper.tor/, [rɛˈpɛrt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈper.tor/, [reˈpɛrt̪or]
Noun
repertor m (genitive repertōris); third declension
- One who finds something, particularly:
- An originator, a deviser.
- A discoverer.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.761-762:
- melle pater fruitur, lībōque īnfūsā calentī
iūre repertōrī candida mella damus- Father [Liber] is delighted by honey, and justly do we offer to [its] discoverer the purest honeys poured on warm cakes.
(See Liber – the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus – and The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus.)
- Father [Liber] is delighted by honey, and justly do we offer to [its] discoverer the purest honeys poured on warm cakes.
- melle pater fruitur, lībōque īnfūsā calentī
- An inventor.
- (figuratively) An author.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | repertor | repertōrēs |
Genitive | repertōris | repertōrum |
Dative | repertōrī | repertōribus |
Accusative | repertōrem | repertōrēs |
Ablative | repertōre | repertōribus |
Vocative | repertor | repertōrēs |
Descendants
- English: repertor
- French: repertour
References
- “repertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Romanian
Noun
repertor n (plural repertorii)
- Alternative form of repertoriu
Declension
Declension of repertor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) repertor | repertorul | (niște) repertorii | repertoriile |
genitive/dative | (unui) repertor | repertorului | (unor) repertorii | repertoriilor |
vocative | repertorule | repertoriilor |