interpres

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From inter (“between”) + a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to sell, traffic in”), extended sense from *per- (“forward”), with proposed developments *enter-poro- (“going between”) ⇒ *enter-pore-t- (“who goes between”) (t-stem derivation) and *enterpŏress (with addition of the nominative singular case ending -s and assimilation of the -et to the ending) > *enterpress (with syncope) > interpres.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

interpres m or f (genitive interpretis); third declension

  1. An agent between two parties; broker, mediator, negotiator, factor, messenger
    Synonyms: cōciō, arillātor
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.356–358:
      “Nunc etiam interpres dīvom, Iove missus ab ipsō —
      testor utrumque caput — celerīs mandāta per aurās
      dētulit .
      “And now even the messenger of the gods, sent from Jove himself – I swear by your life and mine – has delivered commands through the swift winds.”
      (The messenger was Mercury. Syncopation: “divom” for “divorum”.)
  2. A translator, interpreter, expounder, expositor, explainer; dragoman
    Synonyms: coniector, commentātor, interpretātor, trānslātor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative interpres interpretēs
genitive interpretis interpretum
dative interpretī interpretibus
accusative interpretem interpretēs
ablative interprete interpretibus
vocative interpres interpretēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “interpres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “interpres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • interpres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • interpres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • an interpreter of dreams: somniorum interpres, coniector
    • the translator: interpres
  • “interpres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • interpres in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “interpres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307
  2. ^ “interpret”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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