translatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• trālātiō

Etymology

From the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, carry over”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /transˈlaː.ti.oː/, [t̪rä̃ːs̠ˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /transˈlat.t͡si.o/, [t̪ränzˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

trānslātiō f (genitive trānslātiōnis); third declension

1. Translation, in the broadest sense: the process of transferring or carrying something over from one thing to another; in particular:
   1. Translation of text from one language to another
   2. A transfer from a literal to a figurative meaning; a metaphor (compare the Ancient Greek μεταφορά with the same senses)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trānslātiō	trānslātiōnēs
Genitive	trānslātiōnis	trānslātiōnum
Dative	trānslātiōnī	trānslātiōnibus
Accusative	trānslātiōnem	trānslātiōnēs
Ablative	trānslātiōne	trānslātiōnibus
Vocative	trānslātiō	trānslātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Czech: translace
• → Dutch: translatie
• → English: translation
• → Finnish: translaatio
• French: translation
• → German: Translation
• Italian: traslazione
• → Norwegian: translasjon
• Occitan: translacion
• → Polish: translacja
• Portuguese: translação
• Romanian: translație
• → Russian: трансля́ция (transljácija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: трансла́ција, translácija
• → Slovak: translácia
• Spanish: traslación
• → Swedish: translation
• → Ukrainian: трансляція (transljacija)

References

• “translatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “translatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• translatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• translatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
    
  • a metaphor: translatio
    
  • an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)
    
• translatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016