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English
Etymology
From transliterate + -or.
Noun
transliterator (plural transliterators)
- One who transliterates.
1986 April 28, J J Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1:The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original.
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