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"reporter" in seven languages

Meaningreporter

Spanish

reportero

/repoɾˈteɾo/

masc.borrowed · English reporter, adapted with -ero

French

reporter

/ʁəpɔʁtɛʁ/

masc.borrowed · English reporter

Italian

cronista

/kroˈnista/

masc.other source · Latin CHRONICA 'annals', from Greek khrónos 'time'

The anglicism reporter is common too; un inviato is a correspondent sent abroad.

Portuguese

repórter

/heˈpɔhteh/

masc.borrowed · English reporter

Romanian

reporter

/reˈporter/

masc.borrowed · French reporter (from English)

Catalan

reporter

/rəˈpɔɾtəɾ/

masc.borrowed · English reporter

English

reporter

/ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/

from Latin/French · Old French reporter 'to carry back', from Latin REPORTĀRE

English → ItalianreportercronistaNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: report, portable, transport.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

REPORTĀRE‘to carry back’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Built in English on Old French reporter 'to carry back', the word returned to the continent in the 19th century: French still says reporter. Italian's home-grown cronista is a 'chronicler'.

English relatives: report, portable, transport

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In a sentence

  • esEl reportero le hizo una pregunta al ministro.
  • frLe reporter a posé une question au ministre.
  • itIl cronista ha fatto una domanda al ministro.
  • ptO repórter fez uma pergunta ao ministro.
  • roReporterul i-a pus o întrebare ministrului.
  • caEl reporter va fer una pregunta al ministre.
  • enThe reporter asked the minister a question.

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