interpretor

interpretor (plural interpretors)

1. Archaic form of interpreter.

From interpres (“agent, translator”) +‎ -ārī (“to be ~ed”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈter.pre.tor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈter.pre.tor/,

interpretor (present infinitive interpretārī, perfect active interpretātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to explain, expound
2. 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.

3. to understand, conclude

• interpretābilis
• interprex

• “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

Borrowed from French enterpreter.

interpretor n (plural interpretoare)

1. interpreter