referert

Referert is a grammatical term used in Norwegian to denote the past participle of the verb referere, meaning to refer or to cite. As an adjective or predicative form, referert describes something that has been referenced or cited. In academic and formal writing, it is common to say that a source is referert in the text or that a statement is referert to another work. The phrase can appear in contexts such as “kilden er referert i bibliografien” or “artigelen er referert i fotnoten.”

In other Scandinavian languages, related forms exist with slight spelling differences. Swedish uses refererat, while Danish uses refereret for the corresponding participle meaning cited or referred to. These forms serve a parallel function to Norwegian referert, signaling that material has been acknowledged or cited.

A related but distinct term is referat, which in Norwegian (and in many Scandinavian languages) means a summary or minutes of a meeting, rather than a cited source. This common confusion arises from the similarity of the roots but different grammatical and semantic uses.

Etymology and usage notes: referert derives from the verb referere, itself from the Latin referre, meaning to bring back or relate. In English, the closest equivalents are referred or cited, while in computing contexts the term referer or Referer is used in describing the source page of a hyperlink, a different concept from the linguistic use of referert.