interpretation

See also: Interpretation and interprétation

§English

§Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin interpretationem, accusative of interpretatio, noun of action from interpretari (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”)

§Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪntɚpɹəˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

§Noun

interpretation (countable and uncountable, plural interpretations)

1. (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

   the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

2. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .

   Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

3. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
4. (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
5. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
6. (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
7. (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

§Related terms

• interpret
• interpretative
• interpreter
• interpretive

§Translations

act of interpreting

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翻譯 (zh), 翻译 (zh) (fānyì)

• Estonian: tõlgendamine
• French: interprétation (fr) f
• German: Interpretation (de) f, Dolmetschen n
• Greek: ερμηνεία (el) f (ermineía)
• Hungarian: értelmezés (hu)
• Irish: teangaireacht f
• Japanese: 通訳 (つうやく, tsūyaku)
• Javanese: interpretasi
• Khmer: ការបកស្រាយ (kar bakasray)

• Korean: 통역 (ko) (tong-yeok)
• Mongolian: тайлбарлал (tajlbarlal)
• Portuguese: interpretação (pt) f
• Romanian: interpretare (ro) f
• Russian: перево́д (ru) m (perevód) (from one language to another), интерпрета́ция (ru) f (intɛrpretácija), тракто́вка (ru) f (traktóvka), толкова́ние (ru) n (tolkovánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-mhìneachadh m
• Spanish: interpretación (es) f
• Swahili: ufasiri
• Swedish: tolkning (sv) c
• Tagalog: interpretasyon
• Uzbek: talqin

sense given by an interpreter

• Cebuano: hubad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解釋 (zh), 解释 (zh) (jiěshì)

• Estonian: tõlgendus
• Finnish: tulkinta
• French: interprétation (fr) f
• German: Interpretation (de) f, Deutung (de) f
• Greek: ερμηνεία (el) f (ermineía)
• Hungarian: értelmezés (hu)
• Japanese: 解釈 (ja) (かいしゃく, kaishaku)

• Javanese: interpretasi
• Khmer: បកស្រាយ (bakasray)
• Maori: whakamāramatanga
• Mongolian: тайлах (tajlah)
• Portuguese: interpretação (pt) f
• Russian: интерпрета́ция (ru) f (intɛrpretácija), тракто́вка (ru) f (traktóvka), толкова́ние (ru) n (tolkovánije), объясне́ние (ru) n (obʺjasnénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ciallachadh m
• Spanish: interpretación (es) f
• Swahili: tafsiri (sw)
• Swedish: tolkning (sv) c
• Uzbek: tushuntirib berish

power or explaining

artist's way of expressing his thought

• German: Interpretation (de) f
• Greek: ερμηνεία (el) f (ermineía)

• Portuguese: interpretação (pt) f
• Russian: интерпрета́ция (ru) f (intɛrpretácija), тракто́вка (ru) f (traktóvka), толкова́ние (ru) n (tolkovánije)
• Swedish: tolkning (sv) c

process of applying general principles to the explanation of the results

• Estonian: tõlgendus
• Finnish: tulkinta

• Portuguese: interpretação (pt) f

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} interprétation
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} apreciación f

§See also

• (logic): valuation

§External links

• interpretation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• interpretation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911