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informant
English
Etymology
inform +? -ant
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?f??m?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?f??m?nt/
Noun
informant (plural informants)
- One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
- (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
- 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
- The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant'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 (page 116)
- The informant 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.
- 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:informant
Translations
See also
- name names
Catalan
Verb
informant
- present participle of informar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed, more probably from French or German than from English due to the word's ultimate stress.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.f?r?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: in?for?mant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
informant m (plural informanten, diminutive informantje n)
- informer, informant
French
Verb
informant
- present participle of informer
Latin
Verb
?nf?rmant
- third-person plural present active indicative of ?nf?rm?
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infiltrator
English
Etymology
infiltrate +? -or
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nf?lt?e?t?/, /??nf?lt?e?t??/
Noun
infiltrator (plural infiltrators, feminine infiltratrix)
- One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
Synonyms
- (one who infiltrates an organization or territory): informant, narc, spy, plant, provocateur
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