transliterator

English

Etymology

From transliterate +‎ -or.

Noun

transliterator (plural transliterators)

1. One who transliterates.
   • 1986 April 28, J[onathan] J[eremy] Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1:

     The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original.

Related terms

• transliterate
• transliteration

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “transliterator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.