“report” in Latin

Rumor, fama (general term = tradition; not = a single narrative or account, which is rumor hence fama, in this sense, is never to be used in the plur.: Vid: Krebs, s., v.): rumor: narratio: narratiuncula (a story): sermo (the talk of people among each other respecting anything): opinio (an opinion spread abroad so far as it shows itself; Vid: commentators onCaesar, B.G., 2, 35): auditio (hearsay). (The words are found in this connection and order.) rumor (or fama) et auditio: a false report, rumor falsus; plur., auditiones falsae: a widely circulated report, disseminatus dispersusque sermo: an uncertain report, rumor incertus or non firmus. There is a report, a report is current that, etc., rumor, fama, or sermo est; sermo datur (Liv., 2, 2; ☞ not rumor or fama obtinet; i. e., the report is generally received, it continues to be the general account, etc.; Vid: Liv., 21, 46, extr.). There is a very general report about anything, de aliqua re rumor calet (caelius. ap. Cic., Ep., 8, 1, 5): a report spreads, that, etc., rumor oritur, or exsistit, or exit, venit. A report spreads on all sides, rumor differtur; fama differt (Suet., Caes., 33, Bremi): a report spreads over the town, fama tota urbe discurrit. The following report is in circulation, serpit hic rumor (Cic., Muren., 21, extr.). The report having been quickly spread abroad that Dion had been killed, celeri rumore dilato, Dioni vim allatam: a report reaches my ears, rumor (fama) affertur or perfertur ad me, respecting anything, de re: report says, that, etc., fama nunciat: to know anything only by report, fama et auditione accepisse aliquid: to hear an obscure report of anything, quasi per nebulam audire aliquid (Vid: Plaut., Copt. 5, 4, 26; Pseud: 1, 5, 48): to spread a report, rumoretn spargere; (on all sides), rumorem dispergere or differre: to spread evil reports of anybody through the town, aliquem per totam urbem rumoribus differre: to stop a report, rumorem exstinguere.

A relation, narrative, general account, relatio: relatus (intelligence of anything; post-Augustan): narratio (a narrative, relation): rei gestae expositio; conscriptio quaestionis (law report, in plur., Cic., Cluent., 67, 191): renunciatio (of an ambassador): libellus: litterae (general term, a written report; libellus in the form of a treatise, litterae in the form of a letter). To make a report, deferre, referre ad aliquem de re (both especially to a superior, but with this difference, that deferre is used of one who voluntarily gives a report, referre of one who does this by virtue of his office and duly): to make or render a report, renunciare, to anybody, alicui (Vid: Held., Caes., B.G., 1, 10): referre or renunciare legationem (of an ambassador): to draw up a report (of a judicial investigation), perscribere (e.g., omnia judicum dicta, interrogata, responsa perscriberent, Cic., Sull., 14, 41). To give an accurate report of an event to the Senate, ordinem rei gestae ad senatum perferre: to make a full report of anything, omnem rem ordine enarrare: to make a circumstantial report, pluribus exponere: to give in a report, libellum tradere (to deliver in with one’s own hands) or mittere (to send in). A report came from the quastor, a quaestore litterae sunt allatae.

A n exact or official account, return, nuncius, of anything, alicujus rei (PROP. oral intelligence by messengers, etc., as opposed to that by writing; then also general term): litterae (written intelligence): by oral and written report, nunciis literisque: to receive a report, nuncium accipere; nunciatur mihi aliquid; nuncius mihi perfertur; certiorem fieri, respecting anything, alicujus rei or de re; accipere, audire, comperire: I have received a report respecting it, mihi allatum est de ea re: he received a report of all the procedings, quid ageretur resciit: to receive a circumstantial report (from anybody) concerning a matter, cuncta edoceri de re: report having been brought, nuncio allato, nunciato, comperto, audito, which may be followed by on accusative and infinitive (with the historians; therefore not to be rejected from historical style; Vid: Held., Caes., B. C. 1, 30; ☞ Zumpt, § 647): a report is brought, arrives, nuncius affertur: to bring a report to anybody, alicui nuncium afferre; also, simply afferre: to have received a report, nuncium accepisse; comperisse; nuncius mihi perlatus est.

Repute, reputation, Vid:

Loud noise, crepitus; fragor (very loud). There is a report, fit fragor ab aliqua re: to make a report, crepare, sonare: to make a loud report, fragorem dare or edere; crepitare vehementius.

To relate what one has heard, referre (☞ only poetical, renarrare). You can report it after me, *mea auctoritate hoc referre licet: I merely report it as I heard it, haec auditu comperta habeo; haec auditione et fama accepi.

To say anything of a person, de aliquo dicere, with an adverb, (general term, to speak of one): incusare aliquid in aliquem (to accuse a person of a thing; Vid: Döderlein, SYN. 2, p. 66): to report badly of anyone, maledice dicere de aliquo: to report well of one, bene or honorifice dicere de aliquo: they report well of anyone, bene audit aliquis: they report of me, you, him, that I, thou, he, etc., dicor, diceris, dicitur (followed by a nominative and infinitive; Vid: Zumpt, § 607; e.g., dives esse dicitur). Reported = alleged, qui (quae, quod) dicitur, fertur, editur (☞ dictus, editus are not classical, in this sense).

To give accurate intelligence, or an official account, nunciare (to announce): renunciare (to bring back word, in consequence of a commission received, or as a return for other intelligence; Vid: Held., Caes., B.G., 1, 10); anything to a person, alicui aliquid: certiorem aliquem facere de re (to inform): docere, edocere aliquem aliquid or (rarely) de re (to instruct; edocere = to give accurate information on a definite subject; Vid: Herzog, Sall., Cat., 48, 4): deferre, referre ad aliquem de re (to give information, etc., especially to a superior; deferre voluntarily, referre by virtue of office and duty): per litteras significare (by writing): narrare (general term, to narrate): memoriae tradere or prodere, or simply prodere (to hand down to posterity; of historians): to report the whole progress of an event, omnem rem ordine enarrare; ordine edocere omnia (orally): omnia perscribere (by writing).

To make a sudden noise, crepare: sonare: fragorem dare or edere, crepitare vehementius (when very loud).