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See also:Informant

English

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Etymology

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Frominform +‎-ant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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informant (pluralinformants)

  1. One whorelaysconfidentialinformation to someone, especially to thepolice; aninformer.
    • 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticingHouse Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, inAV Club[1]:
      One of her chiefinformants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
  2. (linguistics) Anative speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for alanguage being studied. The informant demonstrates nativepronunciation, providesgrammaticality judgments regarding linguisticwell-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other importantcontextual information.
    • 1977, A. E. Kibrik,The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:
      The only material the linguist has to begin with are theinformant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
    • 2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks,Readings in machine translation, page116:
      Theinformant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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one who relays confidential information
lingustics: native speaker who acts as a reference

See also

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Catalan

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Verb

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informant

  1. gerund ofinformar

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɔrˈmɑnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:in‧for‧mant
  • Rhymes:-ɑnt

Noun

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informant m (pluralinformanten,diminutiveinformantje n)

  1. informer,informant

French

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Participle

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informant

  1. presentparticiple ofinformer

Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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īnfōrmant

  1. third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofīnfōrmō
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