interpreter

See also: interpréter

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, understand”), from interpres (“agent, translator”).

Displaced native Old English wealhstod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtəːpɹɪtə/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧pret‧er

Noun

interpreter (plural interpreters)

1. (translation studies) One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.

   A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.

2. (figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit. One who does heritage interpretation.
3. (computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.

   Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter, though some can be compiled.

Synonyms

• (computing): terp (slang)
• (heritage): docent, tour guide

Hypernyms

• (computing): computer program

Hyponyms

• (computing): parts interpreter, command-line interpreter
• (heritage): first-person interpreter, science interpreter, museum interpreter, parks interpreter, historical interpreter

Coordinate terms

• (in computing): compiler

Related terms

• interpret
• interpretation
• interpretive

 

Translations

one who interprets speech

• Afrikaans: tolk
• Albanian: interpretues (sq) m, përkthyes (sq) m
• Amharic: አስተርጓሚ (ʾästärgʷami)
• Apache:

  Jicarilla: déełbidi

• Arabic: مُتَرْجِم m (mutarjim), مُتَرْجِمَة f (mutarjima)
• Armenian: թարգմանիչ (hy) (tʻargmaničʻ)
• Asturian: intérprete m or f
• Azerbaijani: tərcüməçi (az), dilmanc
• Bashkir: тәржемәсе (tərjeməse)
• Belarusian: перакла́дчык (be) m (pjerakládčyk)
• Bengali: অনুবাদক (bn) (onubadok)
• Bulgarian: превода́ч (bg) m (prevodáč), превода́чка (bg) f (prevodáčka)
• Burmese: စကားပြန် (my) (ca.ka:pran)
• Catalan: intèrpret (ca) m or f
• Chechen: талмаж (talmaž)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳譯／传译 (cyun⁴ jik⁶), 传译 (tsyn⁴ jik⁶)

  Mandarin: 口譯員／口译员 (zh) (kǒuyìyuán), 口译员 (zh) (kǒuyìyuán), 口譯者／口译者 (kǒuyìzhě), 口译者 (kǒuyìzhě), 譯員／译员 (zh) (yìyuán), 译员 (zh) (yìyuán), 翻譯／翻译 (zh) (fānyì), 翻译 (zh) (fānyì), 翻譯員／翻译员 (zh) (fānyìyuán), 翻译员 (zh) (fānyìyuán), 翻譯者／翻译者 (zh) (fānyìzhě), 翻译者 (zh) (fānyìzhě), 通事 (zh) (tōngshì), 通譯／通译 (zh) (tōngyì), 通译 (zh) (tōngyì), 傳譯員／传译员 (zh) (chuányìyuán), 传译员 (zh) (chuányìyuán)

• Chuvash: тӑлмач (tălmač)
• Cornish: latimer m, latimores f
• Czech: tlumočník (cs) m, tlumač m (archaic)
• Danish: tolk (da)
• Dutch: tolk (nl) m
• Esperanto: interpretisto
• Estonian: tõlk
• Finnish: tulkki (fi)
• French: interprète (fr) m or f
• Galician: intérprete m or f
• Georgian: თარჯიმანი (tarǯimani), მთარგმნელი (mtargmneli)
• German: Dolmetscher (de) m, Dolmetscherin (de) f, Dolmetsch (de) m (Austrian German), Dolmetschin f (Austrian German)
• Greek: διερμηνέας (el) m or f (dierminéas)

  Ancient: ἑρμηνεύς m (hermēneús)

• Hebrew: מתורגמן \ מְתֻרְגְּמָן m (meturgemán)
• Hindi: अनुवादक (hi) m (anuvādak), दुभाषिया (hi) (dubhāṣiyā)
• Hungarian: tolmács (hu)
• Icelandic: túlkur (is) m
• Indonesian: penerjemah (id), juru bahasa (id)
• Irish: teangaire m
• Italian: interprete (it) m or f
• Japanese: 通訳 (ja) (つうやく, tsūyaku), 通訳者 (つうやくしゃ, tsūyakusha)
• Kashubian: tłómôcz m
• Kazakh: аударушы (audaruşy), аудармашы (audarmaşy), тілмаш (tılmaş)
• Khmer: អ្នកបកប្រែ (neak bɑɑk prae)
• Korean: 통역자 (tong'yeokja), 해석자 (haeseokja), 통역사 (tong'yeoksa)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: котормочу (ky) (kotormocu), тилмеч (ky) (tilmec)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ລ່າມ (lo) (lām), ຜູ້ແປ (phū pǣ), ນາຍພາສາ (nāi phā sā)
• Latin: interpres m or f, interprex m
• Latvian: tulks m, tulkotājs m, tulkotāja f
• Lithuanian: vertėjas m
• Macedonian: преве́дувач m (prevéduvač), то́лкувач m (tólkuvač)
• Malay: jurubahasa (ms), juru bahasa, penterjemah (ms)
• Maltese: interpretu
• Maori: kaiwhakamāori
• Mongolian: тайлбарлагч (mn) (tajlbarlagč), хэлмэрч (mn) (xelmerč)
• Navajo: adiitsʼaʼii, ataʼ halneʼé
• Ngazidja Comorian: mkalimani class 1/2
• Norwegian: tolk (no)
• Old East Slavic: тълкъ m (tŭlkŭ), тълмачь m (tŭlmačĭ)
• Old English: wealhstod m
• Pashto: ترجمان (ps) m (tarǰomãn), مترجم m (motaraǰém), ژباړن (ps) m (žbāṛán), ژباړونکی (ps) m (žbāṛúnkay)
• Persian: ترگمان (targomân)
• Polish: tłumacz (pl) m, tłumaczka (pl) f, tłumacz symultaniczny m, tłumacz ustny m
• Portuguese: intérprete (pt) m or f
• Romanian: interpret (ro) m, interpretă (ro) f, translator (ro) m, translatoare (ro) f, traducător (ro) m, traducătoare (ro) f
• Russian: перево́дчик (ru) m (perevódčik), перево́дчица (ru) f (perevódčica), у́стный перево́дчик m (ústnyj perevódčik), у́стная перево́дчица f (ústnaja perevódčica), толма́ч (ru) m (tolmáč), толма́чка f (tolmáčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-theangaiche m, eadar-theangaichear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тумач m

  Roman: tumač (sh) m

• Sinhalese: තෝල්කයා (tōlkayā)
• Slovak: tlmočník m, tlmočníčka f
• Slovene: tolmač (sl) m, tolmačka f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: tołmač m

• Spanish: intérprete (es) m or f, trujamán, truchimán
• Swedish: tolk (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagaliwat
• Tajik: тарҷумон (tarjumon)
• Tatar: тәрҗемәче (tt) (tärcemäçe)
• Thai: ผู้แปล (pûu-bplɛɛ), นักแปล (nák-bplɛɛ), ล่าม (th) (lâam)
• Tibetan: སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur)
• Turkish: çevirici (tr), çevirmen (tr), dilmaç (tr), dragoman (tr), tercüman (tr)
• Turkmen: terjimeçi, dilmaaç
• Ukrainian: переклада́ч m (perekladáč), переклада́чка f (perekladáčka)
• Urdu: مترجم m (mutarjim), ترجمان m (tarjumān), انوادک m (anuvādak)
• Uyghur: تەرجىمان (terjiman), تىلماچ (tilmach)
• Uzbek: tilmoch (uz), tarjimon (uz), perevodchik, tilmoch (uz)
• Vietnamese: thông dịch viên (vi), người thông dịch
• Welsh: cyfieithydd (cy) m
• White Hmong: tus kws txhais lus
• Yakut: тылбаасчыт (tılbaascıt)
• Yiddish: דאָלמעטשער m (dolmetsher), דאָלמעטשערקע f (dolmetsherke)

one who explains

• Bulgarian: тълкувател (bg) m (tǎlkuvatel)
• Finnish: opas (fi)
• Korean: 해설자 (haeseolja, literally “解說者”)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: comentator (ro) m, interpretator (ro) m

computer program

• Catalan: intèrpret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解釋程序／解释程序, 解释程序 (jiěshì chéngxù)

• Czech: interpret (cs) m
• Esperanto: interpretilo
• Finnish: ohjelmatulkki (fi), tulkki (fi)
• French: interpréteur (fr) m
• Greek: διερμηνευτής (el) m (diermineftís)
• Hungarian: értelmező (hu), interpreter (hu)
• Icelandic: túlkur (is) m
• Japanese: インタープリタ (intāpurita)
• Korean: 인터프레터 (inteopeureteo), 번역기 (ko) (beonyeokgi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tolk (no) m

  Nynorsk: tolk m

• Polish: interpreter (pl) m
• Portuguese: interpretador m
• Romanian: interpretor n
• Russian: интерпрета́тор (ru) m (intɛrpretátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: interpreter (sh) m, interpretator (sh) m

• Spanish: intérprete (es) m
• Turkish: yorumlayıcı (tr)
• Welsh: dehonglydd m

References

• interpreter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reinterpret

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) interpreter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of interpretor

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Middle French

Verb

interpreter

1. to interpret; to find meaning in something

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of interpreter

infinitive	simple	interpreter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	interpretant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		interpreté
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	interprete	interpretes	interprete	interpretons	interpretez	interpretent
	imperfect	interpretois, interpretoys	interpretois, interpretoys	interpretoit, interpretoyt	interpretions, interpretyons	interpretiez, interpretyez	interpretoient, interpretoyent
	past historic	interpreta	interpretas	interpreta	interpretasmes	interpretastes	interpreterent
	future	interpreterai, interpreteray	interpreteras	interpretera	interpreterons	interpreterez	interpreteront
	conditional	interpreterois, interpreteroys	interpreterois, interpreteroys	interpreteroit, interpreteroyt	interpreterions, interpreteryons	interpreteriez, interpreteryez	interpreteroient, interpreteroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	interprete	interpretes	interprete	interpretons	interpretez	interpretent
	imperfect	interpretasse	interpretasses	interpretast	interpretassions	interpretassiez	interpretassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	interprete	—	interpretons	interpretez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Descendants

• French: interpréter

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English interpreter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intěrpreter/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧pre‧ter

Noun

intèrpreter m (Cyrillic spelling интѐрпретер)

1. interpreter

Declension

Declension of interpreter

	singular	plural
nominative	interpreter	interpreteri
genitive	interpretera	interpretera
dative	interpreteru	interpreterima
accusative	interpreter	interpretere
vocative	interpreteru	interpreteri
locative	interpreteru	interpreterima
instrumental	interpreterom	interpreterima

Synonyms

• (person): tùmāč, interprètant, interprètātor, intèrprēt
• (computer program): interprètātor