Etymology

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Today it means: Someone or something that reports. Full definition →

Middle English reportour ← Old French reporteur
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromreporteur
  2. Middle English · inherited fromreportour
  3. English todayreporter

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.