translatress

translatress

English

Alternative forms

• translatoress

Etymology

translator +‎ -ess

Noun

translatress (plural translatresses)

1. (rare) A woman who translates.
   • 1673, Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewomans Companion, London: Dorman Newman, p. 30,

     […] I shall forbear to speak of the incomparable worth and pregnant parts of some Gentlewomen lately deceased, as Mrs. Philips the ingenious Translatress of Pompey, &c. since what is extant of hers, or her Contemporaries will more at large express their matchless merit;

Related terms

• translator

Translations

A woman who translates

Dutch: vertaalster (nl) f French: traductrice (fr) f Romanian: traducătoare (ro) f, translatoare (ro) f, interpretă (ro) f Spanish: traductora (es) f