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repertor en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) A discoverer.
   • 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, page 31:

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