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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, carry over”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
trānslātiō f (genitive trānslātiōnis); third declension
- Translation, in the broadest sense: the process of transferring or carrying something over from one thing to another; in particular:
- Translation of text from one language to another
- A transfer from a literal to a figurative meaning; a metaphor (compare the Ancient Greek μεταφορά with the same senses)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “translatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “translatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- translatio 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)
- translatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
- a metaphor: translatio
- an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)
- translatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016