Noun: translator
| Singular | translator |
| Plural | translators |
Sample Sentences
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"You don't believe the Soviet Union is going to reduce its defense budget, do you?" Boggs asked.
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Premier Chou didn't wait for the translator to finish. "Never, never, never," he replied in perfect English. [1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 95:]
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Mr. C. Blair Leighton... lithographer... was one of the earliest translators of water and oil pictures by the chromatic process. [1855 June, Gentleman's Magazine, number 657, page 1:]
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... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk. [2019, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe, page 100:]
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Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, page 33:]
Nouns inflected like translator
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or. See: Latin Nouns '
trānslātor', Middle English Nouns '
translatour', Latin Nouns '
trānslātor'.
Verbs referencing "translator"
Polish Nouns
translator, German Nouns
Translator.