different between translator vs translatress

English

Alternative forms

• tr., trans., transl. (abbreviations)
• translatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English translatour, from Old French translator, translatour, translateur, from Latin tr?nsl?tor, agent noun from perfect passive participle tr?nsl?tus, from tr?nsfer? (“carry across”), from trans (“across, beyond”) + fer? (“bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?ænzle?t?/, /?t?ænsle?t?/, /?t?ænz?le?t?/, [?t??ænz?le?t??], [?t??ænz?le???], /?t?æns?le?t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?anzle?t?/, /?t???nzle?t?/

Noun

translator (plural translators)

1. A person who translates text, film, or other material into a different natural language.
2. (by extension) One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format.
3. (proscribed) A language interpreter.
4. A computer program that translates something from one language to another using machine translation.

   Synonym: machine translator

Related terms

• transfer
• translate
• translation
• translatory

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Romanian

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Noun

translator m (plural translatori, feminine equivalent translatoare)

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) translator

English

Etymology

translator +? -ess

Noun

translatress (plural translatresses)

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

     […] 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

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