colporteur

English

19th century colporter

Alternative forms

colporter

Etymology

Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from Latin comportō (English comport).

Noun

colporteur (plural colporteurs)

A peddler of publications, especially of religious books

Related terms

colportage

French

Etymology

From colporter +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔl.pɔʁ.tœʁ/
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

colporteur m (plural colporteurs, feminine colporteuse)

peddler, hawker

Descendants

English: colporteur, colporter

Further reading

“colporteur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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