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]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /transˈlat.t͡si.o/, [t̪ränzˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
trānslātiō f (genitive trānslātiōnis); third declension
- Translation, in the broadest sense: the process of transferring or carrying something over from one thing to another; in particular:
- Translation of text from one language to another
- 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, 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)
- the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
- translatio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016