## Meanings
1. A person whose job is to change written text from one language into another.
2. A person who changes spoken words from one language into another as people speak.

## Examples
- She works as a translator for a publishing company.
- The president spoke through a translator at the conference.

## Synonyms
- dubash
- interpreter

## Related Forms
- transfer
- translate
- translation
- translatory

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *telh₂- (bear)
- Root: trānslātor
- Root: translator
- Root: translatour

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Translator 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. In present-day use, it can mean a person whose job is to change written text from one language into another, or a person who changes spoken words from one language into another as people speak.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Communication

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