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undertranslate

verb

Etymology

From under- + translate.

  1. derived from trānslātus
  2. derived from translater
  3. inherited from translaten — “to transport, translate, transform”
  4. prefixed as undertranslate — “under + translate”

Definitions

  1. To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.

    • Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation.
    • Only Borell and Adam undertranslate this opener as "What brings you here, Adler?"
    • I was told specifically that they were going to undertranslate differences between, say, present and aorist infinitives, because there was no agreement on how to handle the differences.

The neighborhood

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