Reportable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Describing something that can be reported, whether it be an event, information, or an occurrence, is essential for proper documentation
2. The term refers to instances or details that are suitable for inclusion in a report due to their significance or relevance
3. It signifies events or facts that meet criteria allowing them to be officially documented in reports or reviews

Etymology: "Reportable" is a plain formation: the English verb "report" with the suffix "-able," meaning "capable of being" or "worthy of" the action. The suffix has a long ancestry. It descends from Latin "-ābilis," which passed into Old French as "-able" and entered Middle English in that form. The Latin "-ābilis" itself grew out of "-bilis," a formation traceable back to a Proto-Italic ancestor and ultimately to a much older Proto-Indo-European root, so the ending has been available for word-building for millennia. In English, "-able" is one of the most productive suffixes, and "reportable" shows it at work on a verb that had already crossed into English from French, where "report" carried the sense of bringing something back and passing it along. Adding the suffix turns the act of reporting into a quality a thing can possess: an event, a fact, or a condition either can or must be passed on to an authority. That is why the word is common in legal, medical, and regulatory contexts, where certain diseases, accidents, or incomes are "reportable" by law.

Synonyms: documentable, noteworthy