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)

1. (rare, obsolete) A discoverer.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 31:

     Let others dispute whether Anah was the Inventour, or onely the Repertour of Mules.

References

• “† repertor, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Anagrams

• reporter, rereport

Latin

Etymology

From reperiō (“I find, discover, invent”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, forming agent nouns), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈper.tor/, [rɛˈpɛrt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈper.tor/, [reˈpɛrt̪or]

Noun

repertor m (genitive repertōris, feminine repertrīx); third declension

1. One who finds something, particularly:
   1. An originator, a deviser.
   2. A discoverer.
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.761–762:

        melle pater fruitur, lībōque īnfūsa 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.)

   3. An inventor.

      Synonym: inventor

2. (figuratively) An author.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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)

1. Alternative form of repertoriu

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	repertor	repertorul		repertorii	repertoriile
genitive-dative	repertor	repertorului		repertorii	repertoriilor
vocative	repertorule			repertoriilor