Categoria: Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source–language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

The English word “translation” derives from the Latin word translatio,^[6] which comes from trans, “across” + ferre, “to carry” or “to bring” (-latio in turn coming from latus, the past participle of ferre). Thus translatio is “a carrying across” or “a bringing across” – in this case, of a text from one language to another.

The translator’s role as a bridge for “carrying across” values between cultures has been discussed at least since Terence, the 2nd-century-BCE Roman adapter of Greek comedies. The translator’s role is, however, by no means a passive, mechanical one, and so has also been compared to that of an artist.

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