in-formant

noun

a person who informs or gives information; informer.

a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.

Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

Origin:
1655–65; < Latin infōrmant- (stem of infōrmāns) present participle of infōrmāre. See inform¹, -ant

Can be confused: informant, informer.

Synonyms
1. source, adviser, tipster.

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informant (ɪnˈfɔːmənt)

—n
	a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc

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