Contextualizebeta

translator

noun
/ˈtɹænzleɪtɚ/US/ˈtɹanzleɪtə/UK

Etymology

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

  1. derived from translatour
  2. inherited from translatour
  3. borrowed from translator
  4. borrowed from trānslātor

Definitions

  1. A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

  2. Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman…

    Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.

    • ... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk.

  3. Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.

    2. Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a…

      Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.

    3. A thing that converts energy from one form to another.

    4. The retinaculum of asclepiads.

The neighborhood

Derived

machine translator

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for translator. 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