translation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of translating, in its various senses:
• The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.

Origin

• From Middle English translacioun, and then:
• from Anglo-Norman translacioun and Middle French, Old French translacion, translation (modern French translation); and
• Trānsferō is derived from trāns- + ferō (the present stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- and the perfect stem from *telh₂-). The English word may be analysed as translate + -ion.