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translatorn.  Brit.  /tranzˈleɪtə/, /trɑːnzˈleɪtə/, /transˈleɪtə/, /trɑːnsˈleɪtə/, U.S. /ˈtrænzˌleɪdər/, /ˈtræn(t)sˌleɪdər/Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French translator, Latin translātor. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman translator, translatour, translatur, Middle French translateur (French translateur , now chiefly in sense ‘transmitter’) person who translates a text from one language to another (beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French), person who transfers (a thing) from one place to another (late 14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin translātor person who transfers (a thing) from one person to another, in post-classical Latin also person who translates a text from one language to another (4th cent.), copyist, transcriber (5th cent.) < translāt- , past participial stem of transferre (see translate v.) + -or -or suffix.Compare Italian traslatore (early 14th cent., now in sense ‘transmitter’), Spanish †traslador (13th cent.). For the usual words in the sense ‘person who translates a text from one language to another’ in modern use in the Romance languages, see discussion at traductor n. Specific forms. With the β. forms compare -er suffix1. Specific senses. In sense 4 after translate v. 17. 1. a. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Chron. Prol. l. 51 I haue had mynde þe making of þe seuenti translatouris [L. translatorum], sum tyme fro grek amendid. c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose l. 1101 in C. Horstmann (1878) 25 Of al translatours in to latyn He was flour enditour fyn. a1450 (?c1400) Comm. Pater Noster (Bodl.) in T. Arnold (1871) III. 96 Whiche word þe Ebru translatoure, Aquyla, interpretid, ‘and þe Lord confermede’. c1460 (Royal 18 D.ii) 646 (MED) How the translater compleyneth of Achilles for his treson. a1500 ( (Egerton) (1953) v. xxvii. f. 106 The symple and vnsuffisaunt translatoure of this litel book. 1525 R. Whitford in tr. St. Augustine f. xxj How be it the latyn, as for gramatycall construccyon, wolde serue bothe the wayes: and that I thynke caused your olde translatour to set the same sentence indyfferent also in englysshe, and so made it ferre more blynde than the latyn. 1570 tr. S. Brandt f. 260 Go Booke,..By thy submission excuse thy Translatour [rhyme honour]. 1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart To Rdr. sig. A4v I hope I haue hit of his meaning, though I vary from his wordes, as all Translators must doe. a1680 S. Butler (1759) II. 405 A Translater dyes an Author, like an old Stuff, into a new Colour. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer I. Pref. Some of his [sc. Homer's] Translators having swell'd into Fustian..others sunk into Flatness. 1778 T. Warton II. Notes 19 Lapus de Castellione, a Florentine civilian, and a great translator from Greek into Latin, about the year 1350. 1837 J. G. Lockhart II. iv. 121 Mr. Cary, the translator of Dante. 1867 E. A. Freeman I. iv. 257 Richer's French translator seems to misconceive his meaning. 1910 I. 804/2 This work, and especially certain notes added by the translator, gave great offence. 1958 23 Aug. 8/2 The association had literary translators in mind mainly, but scientific translators would be welcomed. 2009 J. Tolan xi. 222 The English translator underlines the anti-Protestant message of the episode. the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific types of dictionary 1850 26 Aug. Mr Carillo (a Californian, speaking through a translator) said, [etc.]. 1899 3 Jan. 7/2 She frequently acts as translator for the ambassador in the social functions where he is so frequently seen. 1922 July 306/2 Ponce had seized on Carter, and since the young Georgian did not speak Spanish he was glad to have a guide and translator. 1979 11 Apr. 11/4 Only one person on the seven-member council does not speak French, and the town provides a translator at council meetings for him. 2006 15 Sept. (Extra section) 2/6 The only driver willing to carry my translator and me such a distance was a lean, desperate individual. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > renderer in other medium 1855 June 657/1 Mr. C. Blair Leighton..lithographer..was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process. 1888 W. P. Frith III. vii. 159 The delightful art of Thomas [Landseer, the engraver], so thoroughly in sympathy with his great brother [Edwin, the painter],..places the producer in the front rank of the company of translators. 1918 May 276/2 In the intricate process of producing a play he must be the translator of its moods, and must supply the medium by which they are transmitted to audiences. 1922 A. T. Bolton II. v. xxxiii. 244 It is evident..not only from the work itself, but it can be proved from the drawings, that Playfair was an unfaithful translator of Robert Adam's design. 1967 G. Schuller (1989) i. xiv. 98 The most successful translator of Tristano's piano-based polyphonic style to the saxophone. 2005 S. Crabtree & P. Beudert (ed. 2) i. ii. 34/1 This often (but not always) singles the scenic artist out as the key translator of the scenic designer's work from the drawing board to the stage. 2011 N. Lochery v. 32 Pacheco was the visionary, the translator of lofty projects into reality. c. Computing. society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > translator 1952 71 137/3 The translator should pick up the reading of a standard, precision, self-balancing potentiometer and transmit that reading as a whole number..to a standard punched-card tabulating machine. 1957 191/2 The translator will produce a ready-to-run 704 program which will perform the job specified. 2010 M. Soltys Pref. p. viii Some syntactical errors in the program implementation may be uncovered by a compiler or translator. the world > movement > transference > [noun] > one who or that which 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua ii. xxx. f. 137 Euery translator of the Romayne empyre from the grekes vnto the germaynes, is superyor to the emperour. 1545 G. Joye (v.) f. 69v The changer and translator of kyngedoms and tymes. 1630 R. Brathwait 94 That translater of the Median Empire to the Persians, victorious Cyrus. a1634 W. Austin (1635) 94 Constantine the Emperor (whom they make a great Translator of Bones) would not let them rest in their Graves. a1676 M. Hale (1688) ii. viii. 203 So had we found that we had been still short of our Happiness, unless we had also found him..as well our Translator into his own Kingdom as the Deliverer from the power of Darkness. 3. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who 1594 sig. F Cobler. Naighbor, he shall not doe it, as long as Iefferay the Translater is Maior of the towne. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in (Wing C4662) 19 I'me no translator, have no veine To turne a woman young againe. 1693 77 The Jolly Translator, of Shoes, I mean, not Authors. 1700 T. Brown x. 130 The Cobler is Affronted, if you don't call him Mr. Translator. 1785 18 Jan. (1912) (modernized text) ii. 59 One Simon Mathers, of Scarborough had seven shillings owing to him by a translator. 1824 J. Wight 96 A poor harmless translator of old shoes was placed at the bar by a city officer, upon a charge or having stolen..a checque for 300l. 1851 H. Mayhew I. 198/2 I'm a ‘translator’..by trade. 1886 15 Oct. 3/6 ‘Translators’, who cunningly metamorphose..old leather almost into new goods. 1921 (1927) § 404 Repairer, renovator; tailor's translator; alters and repairs garments. 1921 (1927) § 416 Mender; renovator, repairer, translator;..mends umbrella or parasol covers;..etc. 1995 7 47 They [sc. the broadside makers] constantly undermined the legally established distinctions between the shoemaker, the cobbler who repaired shoes, and the translator, the unskilled journeyman who assembled new shoes from old, discarded ones and was regarded as the lowest of the low. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > other > pair of 1851 H. Mayhew I. 51/2 To wear a pair of second-hand ones [sc. boots], or ‘translators’ (as they are called), is felt as a bitter degradation. 1860 J. C. Hotten (ed. 2) 239 Monmouth-street, Seven Dials, is a great market for translators. 1990 A. Perry (1994) viii. 306 Two days later Monk obediently dressed himself in suitable secondhand clothes; ‘translators’ the informer would have called them. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > transformer > [noun] a1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. 901/2 Translator,..an instrument whereby one form of energy is converted into another. For instance, the power of a prime motor, say a steam engine, is translated by means of a magneto-electric engine into electricity. 4. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > repeater or relay 1855 C. F. Varley The use of translators in connection with submarine cables. 1927 Feb. 45/2 All the more important stations are treated as telegraph exchanges, where calls are received and lines connected to each other, either directly or by means of repeaters or translators. 1956 5 22/2 Using the tools of cable distribution, satellite low power broadcasting, and UHF translators, to meet the strong demand of rural America for its rightful share of television service. 2001 12 Feb. 16/1 Translators are essentially relay stations, found primarily in remote areas, that pick up a signal at the end of a broadcasting range. Compounds C1. 1864 Jan. 639 For, in great distresses, argues the translator-critic, after Eustathius, there is nothing more ridiculous than a messenger who begins a long story with pathetic descriptions. 1883 1 June 718/2 The translator engraver of the present day. 1901 9 13 Their ideal confessedly is the ideal of the painter, and not of the copyist or of the translator-etcher. 1943 34 123 This translator-editor had considerable difficulty in determining the exact order of the fragmentary remains. 1975 2nd Ser. 46 400 He attended the Geneva University Interpreter's School.., receiving a diploma as a translator-interpreter of German, French and English after extensive language studies and 48 courses in translation and interpretation. 2016 E. von Contzen ii. 78 The translator..could take on the role of a translator-compiler, translator-commentator, and translator-author, depending on the amount of material that is newly added to the translation. 1891 8 Dec. 3/1 A little spurt of undignified and vindictive petulance, a new form of translator-treachery. 1945 (School Oriental Stud.) 56 Short intensive translator courses for the R.N. and the R.A.F. 1964 48 45/2 A panel discussion on the hoped-for and delivered contribution of the colleges and universities to translator training. 1984 (1969) (98th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 85 The job evaluation would rate these two translator jobs as comparable and therefore would require that they be paid the same wage. 2018 (Nexis) 31 Mar. a8 As soon as the family arrived in Canada she taught herself basic phrases using a translator app on her family's phone. C2. 1887 28 Sept. 2/2 [He] has fallen into the clutches of a ‘translator-traitor’ if ever there was one, who has not only corrected no blunder, but added an enormous mass of mistranslations and misprints. 1949 2 98 Whether or not this procedure springs out of the old fear of the translator-traitor it seems to indicate an eagerness on Moscow's part to have its version of diplomatic history read and possibly embraced in the West. 1997 L. Hewson in K. Simms i. 48 The well-worn image of the translator-traitor. Derivatives the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates > function of 1580 T. Rogers in tr. Thomas à Kempis 2nd Ep. sig. A.10v I grant they haue done the dutie of translators: yet sure I am they haue neglected a greater dutie than of translatorship. 1786 W. Cowper 11 Feb. (1981) II. 478 You must return it [sc. a specimen of Homer]..to my Translatorship. 1897 3 July 40/4 Miss Stahlnacker..has been appointed to a translatorship in the State Department. 1965 85 140/1 All such flaws do not entirely eliminate the possibility of Hunayan's translatorship, as he himself felt truly at home only in the technical language of Galen. 2012 H. Walker tr. A. Pym (rev. ed.) ii. 39 We will consider the traditional Western distinctions between translatorship and authorship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1382 |