reporten

reporten

1. third-person plural present indicative of reportar

From Old French reporter.

reporten (third-person singular simple present reporteth, present participle reportende, reportynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle reported)

1. to report
   • Chaucer, The Man of Lawes Tale 148-154:

     Soiourned han thise marchants in that toun
     A certein tyme, as fel to hir plesance.
     And so bifel, that thexcellent renoun
     Of themperoures doghter, dame Custance,
     Reported was, with every circumstance,
     Un-to thise Surrien marchants in swich wyse,
     Fro day to day, as I shal yow devyse.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1412-1420, John Lydgate, Guido delle Colonne, de Sainte-More Benoît, Henry Bergen, Frederick James Furnivall, Lydgate's Troy Book‎^[1], Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. for the Early English Text Society, published 1910, page 619:

     And so reporteþ to hym þat haþ ȝou sent

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1450, Walton, John; Science, Mark, Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophae‎^[2], Oxford University Press, published 1927:

     Bot þei rehersyng Plato, saue þeire þes, His conseit thei reporten all amys, And of his me[n]yng failen foule i-wys.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• English: report

• “reporten”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

reporten

1. inflection of reportar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative