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transcreate

verb

Etymology

From trans- + create or Back-formation from transcreation. (Etymology 1).

  1. derived from creātus
  2. inherited from createn
  3. prefixed as transcreate — “trans + create”

Definitions

  1. To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.

    • At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English
    • "We need someone to trans-create, rather than translate our advertising for the Hispanic market, especially in Dade," said Sandy Tapper, NCNB advertising
    • Even Raja Rao's, Serpent and the Rope, is much less successful in its attempt to transcreate a Sanskrit structure into English.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transcreate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA