translatrixn.
/transˈleɪtrɪks/, /trɑːnsˈleɪtrɪks/, /tranzˈleɪtrɪks/, /trɑːnzˈleɪtrɪks/, U.S. /ˈtrænzˌleɪtrɪks/, /ˈtræn(t)sˌleɪtrɪks/ 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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1791 Monthly Rev. Jan. 43 The first of these [poems], which seems to have cost our ingenious and elegant translatrix more trouble than any of the other compositions, appears to us more confused, feeble, and full of repetitions, than the rest.
1846 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 579/1 In a letter to Robertson, Hume..tells him of a translator or translatrix, a Madame Belot, who had done his ‘House of Tudor’.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 133/1 The translatrix knows her Greek well enough to do this.
1902 Speaker 4 Oct. 19/1 Is it the translatrix or Gregorovius himself who is guilty of making the aureole of Cosimo and Lorenzo Medici pave the way for Leo X. to secure an Augustan place in the history of culture?
1979 Eighteenth Cent. 20 82 The translatrix, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, has written a long and intricate preface.
2005 New Yorker (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Fact section) 98 Garnett was played by a student at the drama school named Meryl Streep, who portrayed the aged ‘translatrix’ as a muddled loon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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