colporteur

== English == === Alternative forms === colporter === Etymology === Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from Latin comportō (English comport). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɒlpɔː(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)/ === Noun === colporteur (plural colporteurs) A peddler of publications, especially of religious books ==== Related terms ==== colportage colport ==== Translations ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from French colporteur. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌkɔl.pɔrˈtøːr/ Hyphenation: col‧por‧teur Rhymes: -øːr === Noun === colporteur m (plural colporteurs, no diminutive) a door-to-door salesperson ==== Related terms ==== colportage colporteren == French == === Etymology === From colporter +‎ -eur. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔl.pɔʁ.tœʁ/ === Noun === colporteur m (plural colporteurs, feminine colporteuse) peddler, hawker ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: colporteur → Indonesian: kolportir → English: colporteur, colporter → Macedonian: колпорте́р (kolportér) → Romanian: colportor → Swedish: kolportör === Further reading === “colporteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012