repertor

• (obsolete): repertour

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.

repertor (plural repertors)

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

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

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

• reporter, rereport

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈper.tor/, [rɛˈpɛr.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈper.tor/

repertor m (genitive repertōris); third declension

1. One who finds something, particularly:
   1. An originator, a deviser.
   2. A discoverer.
   3. An inventor.
2. (figuratively) An author.

Third declension.

• English: repertor
• French: repertour

• repertor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press