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English
Noun
interpretor (plural interpretors)
- Archaic form of interpreter.
Latin
Etymology
From interpres (“agent, translator”) + -ārī (“to be ~ed”).
Pronunciation
Verb
interpretor (present infinitive interpretārī, perfect active interpretātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to explain, expound
- to interpret, translate
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate In Job praefatio:
- Hoc unum scio, non potuisse me interpretari, nisi quod ante intellexeram.
- I only know this one thing: I could not translate what I did not understand.
c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidore of Seville,
Etymologiae 7.5.1:
- Angeli Graece vocantur, Hebraice malachoth, Latine vero nuntii interpretantur, ab eo quod Domini voluntatem populis nuntiant.
- Angels are called thus in Greek, and malakhoth in Hebrew, translated into Latin as "messengers" because they deliver God's will to the many peoples.
- to understand, conclude
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Descendants
References
- “interpretor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interpretor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interpretor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to explain a dream: somnium interpretari
- to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari
- interpretor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French enterpreter.
Noun
interpretor n (plural interpretoare)
- interpreter
Declension