translator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person whose job is to change written text from one language into another.

   She works as a translator for a publishing company.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who changes spoken words from one language into another as people speak.

   The president spoke through a translator at the conference.

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.

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