interpretor
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
interpretor (plural interpretors)
- Archaic form of interpreter.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From interpres (“translator, agent”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈter.pre.tor/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛrpɾɛt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈter.pre.tor/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛrpɾɛt̪ɔr]
Verb[edit]
interpretor (present infinitive interpretārī, perfect active interpretātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- I explain, expound
- I interpret, translate
- c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 7.5.1:
- Angeli Graece vocantur, Hebraice malachoth, Latine vero nuntii interpretantur, ab eo quod Domini voluntatem populis nuntiant.
- Angels are called thus in Greek, and malakhoth in Hebrew, [literally] translated into Latin as "messengers" because they deliver God's will to the [world's] many peoples.
- Angeli Graece vocantur, Hebraice malachoth, Latine vero nuntii interpretantur, ab eo quod Domini voluntatem populis nuntiant.
- I understand, conclude
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: interpretar
- Galician: interpretar
- Italian: interpretare
- Old French: enterpreter
- French: interpréter
- → Dutch: interpreteren
- → German: interpretieren
- → Middle English: interpreten
- English: interpret
- French: interpréter
- Portuguese: interpretar
- Spanish: interpretar
- → Albanian: interpretoj
- → Russian: интерпретировать (interpretirovatʹ)
References[edit]
- interpretor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- interpretor in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- interpretor in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- to explain a dream: somnium interpretari
- to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari
- to explain a dream: somnium interpretari
- interpretor in Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016, retrieved 16 July 2016
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