translation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Words or text that have been changed from one language into another.

   I read an English translation of the Russian novel.

2. 2
   noun

   The act or process of changing words from one language into another.

   This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.

From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Equivalent to translate + -ion. Displaced native Old English wending.

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