interpretern.

/ɪnˈtəːprɪtə/

Forms: Middle English–1600s interpretour, enterpretour, enterpretor, 1500s– interpreter.

Etymology: Middle English interpretour , Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpreteeur , -teur , also entrepreteur (Godefroy), < late Latin interpretātōr-em (Tertullian), agent-noun < interpretārī to interpret v. In 16th cent. conformed to agent-nouns in -er , like speak-er : see -er suffix¹ 2.

1. One who interprets or explains.

†a. An official or professional expounder of laws, texts, mysteries, etc.; a commentator. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > professional

interpreterc1440

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 262/2 Interpretowre, or expownere, interpres.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 God seiþ bi Ysaie..þin enterpretors han brokyn þe lawe aȝenis Me.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. vii. sig. G.iii^v Al olde y^e holy enterpretors haue construed the scripture agaynst them.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xxii. A Balaam the sonne of Beor, which was an interpreter.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 They conuert their labours to aspire to certaine second Prizes; as to be a profound Interpreter or Commenter.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 23 Then said Christian to the Interpreter, Expound this matter more fully to me.

b. One who interprets a particular thing, or interprets something in a particular way; one who explains or puts a construction upon the meaning or purposes of a person. Also transferred of things.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter

latimerc1275

dragoman13..

meanera1387

interpretator?a1475

truchman1485

spokesman1519

interpreter1531

interpret1584

decipherer1587

trenchman1632

linguistera1649

terjiman1682

renderera1691

dubash1698

reader1763

exegesist1831

hermeneutist1836

exegetes1846

elicitor1848

beach-man1867

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > one who construes

construerc1440

interpreter1531

constructor1616

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour Proheme sig. aiij^v I..beseche your hyghnes, to dayne to be..defendour of this litle warke, agayne the assaultes of maligne interpretours.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 84 What we oft doe best, By sicke Interpreters..is Not ours, or not allow'd.

1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) vii. 191 Tears are a Penitents best Interpreter.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ii. 17 We have supposed that the spectator..is a faithful interpreter of the phenomena presented to his senses.

1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence (1869) ii. 185 Our prayers are the interpreters of the articles.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 113 The Poets and the Sophists, who are their interpreters.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon ix. 225 Great ideas and great principles need their adequate interpreter..if they are to influence the history of mankind.

†c. Formerly a frequent title of books explaining the meaning of technical terms or unusual words. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific types of dictionary

interpreter1607

etymologicon1616

rhyming dictionary1775

idioticon1834

reverse dictionary1838

translator1850

collegiate dictionary1872

collegiate1898

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter > as book title

expositor1530

interpreter1607

1607 J. Cowell (title) The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (title) The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English Words.

1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter Pref. I have reserved to it the former Name, and call it The Interpreter, which is most proper, as opening those obscure terms which otherwise are with great difficulty understood.

d. One who interprets (sense 1d) photographs.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > interpretation of aerial photographs > one who

photointerpreter1942

interpreter1950

1950 A. Lee Soviet Air Force ii. 55 Large flying units..had photographic interpreter specialists.

1958 C. B. Smith Evidence in Camera i. 21 Although the art of interpreting air photographs had been developed quite a long way in the First World War, in the summer of 1939 there was precisely one experienced interpreter.

2. One who translates languages.

†a. A translator of books or writings (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates > of books

interpreterc1400

c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 48 Iohan þat translatyd þis book..ful wys, & leel enterpretour of langages.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. sig. a.i The Hebrewes..accompt for the sayd terme. iii. M. ix. C. sixty and. iii. yeres. the seuenty Interpretours rekyn. v. M. C. lxxx. and. xix. yeres.

1535 M. Coverdale Pref. Apocrypha The other prayer and songe..haue I not founde amonge eny of the interpreters, but onely in the olde latyn texte, which reporteth it to be of Theodotios translacion.

1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. II. 398 This error has been occasioned by the seventy interpreters.

b. One who translates the communications of persons speaking different languages; spec. one whose office it is to do so orally in the presence of the persons; a dragoman.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates

remenoura1382

translatora1382

interpreterc1384

turnera1387

reducerc1530

metaphrast1610

linguist1612

traducer1631

traductor1679

versionist1782

versionera1806

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiv. 28 If ther be not an interpretour, be he stille in the chirche.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlii. B They knew not that Ioseph vnderstode it, for he spake vnto them by an interpreter [thē (them) in text.].

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xliii. 660 The letters [were] read by an enterpretour.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 212 In Cases where the Prisoner and Witnesses, do not understand the British Language, Interpreters must be procured and sworn, as follows.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 109 Psammetichus..consigned a number of Egyptian boys to their care, to be instructed in the Greek language, so as to form a permanent class of interpreters.

†3. One who makes known the will of another; a title of Mercury as messenger of the gods. (Latin interpres divum Virgil.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger

erendrakec825

bodec888

apostlec950

sand1038

sandesman1123

sanderbodec1200

bearer?c1225

errand-bearer?c1225

messenger?c1225

erindeberea1250

sand-manc1275

beadsman1377

herald1377

messagea1382

runnera1382

sendmana1400

interpreter1490

nuntius1534

post1535

pursuivant?1536

nuncius1573

nuncio1587

carrier1594

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mercury1597

chiaus1599

foreranger1612

postera1614

irisa1616

missivea1616

chouse1632

angela1637

caduceator1684

purpose messenger1702

errand-bringer1720

harkara1747

commissionaire1749

carrier pigeon1785

errander1803

errand-porter1818

tchaush1819

card carrier1845

errand-goer1864

choush1866

ghulam1882

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 61 Iupyter..called to hym Mercuryus, whiche ys interpretour of the goddes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 657 Uriel, for thou..The first art wont his great authentic will Interpreter through highest Heav'n to bring, Where all his Sons thy Embassie attend.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Aristides in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 487 She [sc. Minerva] performing the Office of an Interpreter and Introducer to the Gods when it is needful.

†4. Rhetoric. An explanation of one expression by another; = synonymy n. (Latin interpretatio.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parallelism > of synonyms

apposition1561

interpreter1589

synonymy1656

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 179 The Greekes call it Sinonimia..the Latines..called it by a name of euent, for (said they) many words of one nature and sence, one of them doth expound another. And there-fore they called this figure the [Interpreter].

5. Computing.

a. A machine that prints on a punched card fed into it the alphabetic or numerical equivalent of the pattern of holes.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device

reproducer1885

sorter1917

interpreter1936

verifier1940

card reader1946

reader1946

tape reader1947

collator1949

tape reproducer1961

stacker1962

tabulator1970

1936 Office Machine Man. Dec. The Interpreter which interprets the information punched into the card and prints such information in figures along the top edge of the card.

1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 47 The chief IBM punch-card machines are: the key punch, the verifier, the sorter, the interpreter, the reproducer, the collator, the multiplying punch, the calculating punch, and the tabulator.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing iii. 54 If the cards have no text, a special machine, an ‘interpreter’, can be used to read the cards and print their contents on the top line.

b. An interpretive routine (see interpretive adj. b).

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > interpreter

interpreter1954

1954 Computers & Automation Dec. 15/2 Interpreter, an executive routine which, as the computation progresses, translates a stored program expressed in some machine-like pseudo-code into machine code and performs the indicated operations, by means of subroutines, as they are translated.

1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing xiv. 291 If a complete translation of the program is prepared before the initiation of its operation the system is a compiler; if the pseudo-code is retranslated each time it is used during operation, the system is an interpreter.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 143 As the number of subroutines available increased..whole programs could be written without any machine code being necessary. The coded orders were read in and a special routine (called the interpretive program or ‘interpreter’) selected each required subroutine in turn.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	interpreter
释义	interpretern. /ɪnˈtəːprɪtə/ Forms: Middle English–1600s interpretour, enterpretour, enterpretor, 1500s– interpreter. Etymology: Middle English interpretour , Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpreteeur , -teur , also entrepreteur (Godefroy), < late Latin interpretātōr-em (Tertullian), agent-noun < interpretārī to interpret v. In 16th cent. conformed to agent-nouns in -er , like speak-er : see -er suffix¹ 2. 1. One who interprets or explains. †a. An official or professional expounder of laws, texts, mysteries, etc.; a commentator. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > professional interpreterc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 262/2 Interpretowre, or expownere, interpres. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 32 God seiþ bi Ysaie..þin enterpretors han brokyn þe lawe aȝenis Me. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. vii. sig. G.iii^v Al olde y^e holy enterpretors haue construed the scripture agaynst them. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xxii. A Balaam the sonne of Beor, which was an interpreter. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 They conuert their labours to aspire to certaine second Prizes; as to be a profound Interpreter or Commenter. View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 23 Then said Christian to the Interpreter, Expound this matter more fully to me. b. One who interprets a particular thing, or interprets something in a particular way; one who explains or puts a construction upon the meaning or purposes of a person. Also transferred of things. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter latimerc1275 dragoman13.. meanera1387 interpretator?a1475 truchman1485 spokesman1519 interpreter1531 interpret1584 decipherer1587 trenchman1632 linguistera1649 terjiman1682 renderera1691 dubash1698 reader1763 exegesist1831 hermeneutist1836 exegetes1846 elicitor1848 beach-man1867 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > one who construes construerc1440 interpreter1531 constructor1616 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour Proheme sig. aiij^v I..beseche your hyghnes, to dayne to be..defendour of this litle warke, agayne the assaultes of maligne interpretours. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 84 What we oft doe best, By sicke Interpreters..is Not ours, or not allow'd. View more context for this quotation 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) vii. 191 Tears are a Penitents best Interpreter. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ii. 17 We have supposed that the spectator..is a faithful interpreter of the phenomena presented to his senses. 1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence (1869) ii. 185 Our prayers are the interpreters of the articles. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 113 The Poets and the Sophists, who are their interpreters. 1884 R. W. Church Bacon ix. 225 Great ideas and great principles need their adequate interpreter..if they are to influence the history of mankind. †c. Formerly a frequent title of books explaining the meaning of technical terms or unusual words. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific types of dictionary interpreter1607 etymologicon1616 rhyming dictionary1775 idioticon1834 reverse dictionary1838 translator1850 collegiate dictionary1872 collegiate1898 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > interpreter > as book title expositor1530 interpreter1607 1607 J. Cowell (title) The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (title) The English Dictionarie: or, an Interpreter of hard English Words. 1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter Pref. I have reserved to it the former Name, and call it The Interpreter, which is most proper, as opening those obscure terms which otherwise are with great difficulty understood. d. One who interprets (sense 1d) photographs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > interpretation of aerial photographs > one who photointerpreter1942 interpreter1950 1950 A. Lee Soviet Air Force ii. 55 Large flying units..had photographic interpreter specialists. 1958 C. B. Smith Evidence in Camera i. 21 Although the art of interpreting air photographs had been developed quite a long way in the First World War, in the summer of 1939 there was precisely one experienced interpreter. 2. One who translates languages. †a. A translator of books or writings (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates > of books interpreterc1400 c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 48 Iohan þat translatyd þis book..ful wys, & leel enterpretour of langages. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. sig. a.i The Hebrewes..accompt for the sayd terme. iii. M. ix. C. sixty and. iii. yeres. the seuenty Interpretours rekyn. v. M. C. lxxx. and. xix. yeres. 1535 M. Coverdale Pref. Apocrypha The other prayer and songe..haue I not founde amonge eny of the interpreters, but onely in the olde latyn texte, which reporteth it to be of Theodotios translacion. 1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. II. 398 This error has been occasioned by the seventy interpreters. b. One who translates the communications of persons speaking different languages; spec. one whose office it is to do so orally in the presence of the persons; a dragoman. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates remenoura1382 translatora1382 interpreterc1384 turnera1387 reducerc1530 metaphrast1610 linguist1612 traducer1631 traductor1679 versionist1782 versionera1806 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiv. 28 If ther be not an interpretour, be he stille in the chirche. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xlii. B They knew not that Ioseph vnderstode it, for he spake vnto them by an interpreter [thē (them) in text.]. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xliii. 660 The letters [were] read by an enterpretour. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 212 In Cases where the Prisoner and Witnesses, do not understand the British Language, Interpreters must be procured and sworn, as follows. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 109 Psammetichus..consigned a number of Egyptian boys to their care, to be instructed in the Greek language, so as to form a permanent class of interpreters. †3. One who makes known the will of another; a title of Mercury as messenger of the gods. (Latin interpres divum Virgil.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger erendrakec825 bodec888 apostlec950 sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 bearer?c1225 errand-bearer?c1225 messenger?c1225 erindeberea1250 sand-manc1275 beadsman1377 herald1377 messagea1382 runnera1382 sendmana1400 interpreter1490 nuntius1534 post1535 pursuivant?1536 nuncius1573 nuncio1587 carrier1594 nunciate1596 mercury1597 chiaus1599 foreranger1612 postera1614 irisa1616 missivea1616 chouse1632 angela1637 caduceator1684 purpose messenger1702 errand-bringer1720 harkara1747 commissionaire1749 carrier pigeon1785 errander1803 errand-porter1818 tchaush1819 card carrier1845 errand-goer1864 choush1866 ghulam1882 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xvi. 61 Iupyter..called to hym Mercuryus, whiche ys interpretour of the goddes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 657 Uriel, for thou..The first art wont his great authentic will Interpreter through highest Heav'n to bring, Where all his Sons thy Embassie attend. View more context for this quotation 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Aristides in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 487 She [sc. Minerva] performing the Office of an Interpreter and Introducer to the Gods when it is needful. †4. Rhetoric. An explanation of one expression by another; = synonymy n. (Latin interpretatio.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parallelism > of synonyms apposition1561 interpreter1589 synonymy1656 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 179 The Greekes call it Sinonimia..the Latines..called it by a name of euent, for (said they) many words of one nature and sence, one of them doth expound another. And there-fore they called this figure the [Interpreter]. 5. Computing. a. A machine that prints on a punched card fed into it the alphabetic or numerical equivalent of the pattern of holes. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device reproducer1885 sorter1917 interpreter1936 verifier1940 card reader1946 reader1946 tape reader1947 collator1949 tape reproducer1961 stacker1962 tabulator1970 1936 Office Machine Man. Dec. The Interpreter which interprets the information punched into the card and prints such information in figures along the top edge of the card. 1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 47 The chief IBM punch-card machines are: the key punch, the verifier, the sorter, the interpreter, the reproducer, the collator, the multiplying punch, the calculating punch, and the tabulator. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing iii. 54 If the cards have no text, a special machine, an ‘interpreter’, can be used to read the cards and print their contents on the top line. b. An interpretive routine (see interpretive adj. b). ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > system or utility programmes > interpreter interpreter1954 1954 Computers & Automation Dec. 15/2 Interpreter, an executive routine which, as the computation progresses, translates a stored program expressed in some machine-like pseudo-code into machine code and performs the indicated operations, by means of subroutines, as they are translated. 1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing xiv. 291 If a complete translation of the program is prepared before the initiation of its operation the system is a compiler; if the pseudo-code is retranslated each time it is used during operation, the system is an interpreter. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 143 As the number of subroutines available increased..whole programs could be written without any machine code being necessary. The coded orders were read in and a special routine (called the interpretive program or ‘interpreter’) selected each required subroutine in turn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1384
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