raconteur [răk.ən(.ɑn)`tur] noun.


A witty, skillful storyteller.
[French, fr. raconter, to tell fr. Old French: re-, again & aconter, to calculate the sum of: a- to, fr. Latin ad- & cunter, to count fr. Latin computare: com-, with, together & putare, to sum up fr. Indo-European root *pu-to-, fr. *pau-, to stamp or cut fr. *pa₂u-, fr. *pe₂u-]