different between communicant vs informer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mju?n?k?nt/

Noun

communicant (plural communicants)

1. A person who receives (or is allowed to receive the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of) the sacrament of Holy Communion (compare also the terms: communion, Communion, Lord’s Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy).
   • , August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Bennett

     A never-failing monthly communicant.

2. One who communicates.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

   • 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians (page 215)

     These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.

Translations

Adjective

communicant (not comparable)

1. Communicating.
   • c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church

     The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?mmunic?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.my.ni?k?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?mu?ni?cant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

communicant m (plural communicanten, diminutive communicantje n)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A communicant, one receiving Holy Communion.

   Synonym: communieganger

French

Adjective

communicant (feminine singular communicante, masculine plural communicants, feminine plural communicantes)

1. communicating.

   vases communicants (communicating vessels)

Latin

Verb

comm?nicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of comm?nic?

English

Alternative forms

• informor (obsolete, rare)
• informour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

inform +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)m?(r)

Noun

informer (plural informers)

1. One who informs someone else about something.
2. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
3. One who informs, animates, or inspires.
   • 1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson

     Nature, informer of the poet's art.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:informant

Translations

See also

• name names

Anagrams

• reinform, reniform

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nf?rm?, ?nf?rm?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.f??.me/

Verb

informer

1. to inform; to enlighten; to impart knowledge (upon)

2. (reflexive) to inquire

Conjugation

Related terms

• information
• former

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

?nf?rmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ?nf?rm?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

informer

1. imperative of informere