translatressn.
/trɑːnzˈleɪtrᵻs/, /tranzˈleɪtrᵻs/, /trɑːnsˈleɪtrᵻs/, /transˈleɪtrᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtrænzˌleɪtrəs/, /ˈtræn(t)sˌleɪtrəs/ Now chiefly in historical contexts.
A female translator.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > one who translates > female
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1630 J. Jones in E. Cary tr. J. D. Du Perron Reply to Answeare of King Admon. to Rdr. sig. ēv No other change, but in these few, and such like haue we made; neither was it needfull, the translatresse hauing so fittly, and significantly expressed the autours meaning, that it would haue been lost labour to striue to do it better.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §91. 85 Which Card. Perron and his Translatresse so often translate false.
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 30 Mrs. Philips the ingenious Translatress of Pompey, &c.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 76 By the French translatress Madam Dacier.
1824 New Monthly Mag. 11 223 Without rank or influence, the translatress of Epictetus appears to have constantly revolved in the orbit of peace and equanimity.
1865 Evening Standard 4 Feb. The celebrated French translatress of Darwin's work on the ‘Origin of Species’.
1919 Living Age 16 Aug. 415/1 Count Algarotti was then in England, and it is possible that his translatress may have met him.
2002 Jrnl. Midwest Mod. Lang. Assoc. 35 68 Sherry Simon, a scholar who consistently strives to emphasize the dynamic and interventionist dimensions of translation, marks the Renaissance as the moment in which the ‘translatress’ enters the scene.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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