English
reportative
From report + -ative.
Formed from report + -ative
Latin portō ‘to carry’
Latin reportō ‘to carry back, return, remit, refer’
Anglo-Norman reporter
Middle English reporten ‘to report’
English report
Today it means
noun A grammatical construct used in some languages when reporting something learned from somebody else.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “reportative”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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