Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
unknown translator
Latin translation:
interpres ignotus
Added to glossary by
Sergey Kudryashov
Jul 7, 2009 13:00
14 yrs ago
English term
United States
30+ years, stopped counting...
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
unknown translator
English to Latin
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
A friend of mine wants to attribute a translation to an unknown translator, in Latin; in other words, after quoting after the translated passage it would say, in Latin, "Unknown translator".
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
Proposed translations
(Latin)
| 4 +2 | ignotus interpres |
Sergey Kudryashov
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| 5 | ignotus translator |
Luis Antonio de Larrauri
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Change log
Sep 20, 2009 08:12: Sergey Kudryashov Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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16 mins
Sergey Kudryashov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Specializes in field
Russian Federation
French to Russian translator
Native in: Russian
Works in: French to Russian, Latin to Russian, Greek to Russian, and 10 more.
Related KudoZ points
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16
Selected
ignotus interpres
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
2 hrs
Luis Antonio de Larrauri
Specializes in field
Legal, business, literature specialized
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Latin to English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
4
ignotus translator
This is how Jerome, patron saint of translators, named his own job (according to my dictionary).
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Note added at 6 days (2009-07-14 07:55:08 GMT)
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Examples:
Sufficit mihi ipsa translatoris auctoritas... (= it is enough for me the authority of the translator...) (Jerome)
ad verbum expressa translatio (= verbatim translation) (Jerome)
Eius volumina censeret in linguam Latinam transferenda (=he thought his volumes should be translated into Latin) (Pliny)
The Idea of PanSlavic Ethnolinguistic Kinship and Reciprocity in ...
egregii et ***translatoris*** interpretisque eximii sacre scripture de Ebraica in Latinam et Sclavonicam linguas” (Jelić 1906b, 5). ...
www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id... - Similar
by VB Sotirović - 2006 - Related articles
Full text of "Lectiones Alexandrinae et Hebraicae: sive de ...
... excusabilis est , et talis ut de fide ***translatoris*** nihil detrahat. ..... sed et internis indi- ciis ex ipsa consuetudine translatoris cuiusque deprom- ...
www.archive.org/stream/.../lectionesalexan00plgoog_djvu.txt - Cached - Similar
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Note added at 6 days (2009-07-14 07:55:08 GMT)
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Examples:
Sufficit mihi ipsa translatoris auctoritas... (= it is enough for me the authority of the translator...) (Jerome)
ad verbum expressa translatio (= verbatim translation) (Jerome)
Eius volumina censeret in linguam Latinam transferenda (=he thought his volumes should be translated into Latin) (Pliny)
The Idea of PanSlavic Ethnolinguistic Kinship and Reciprocity in ...
egregii et ***translatoris*** interpretisque eximii sacre scripture de Ebraica in Latinam et Sclavonicam linguas” (Jelić 1906b, 5). ...
www.ceeol.com/aspx/getdocument.aspx?logid=5&id... - Similar
by VB Sotirović - 2006 - Related articles
Full text of "Lectiones Alexandrinae et Hebraicae: sive de ...
... excusabilis est , et talis ut de fide ***translatoris*** nihil detrahat. ..... sed et internis indi- ciis ex ipsa consuetudine translatoris cuiusque deprom- ...
www.archive.org/stream/.../lectionesalexan00plgoog_djvu.txt - Cached - Similar
Peer comment(s):
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Joseph Brazauskas
: Correct but a poetic word, found only in Horace in classical Latin.
5 days
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But as verb is found in Cicero and Pliny. It could be a neologism in his time, but some time later perfectly usable, still in the Latin world.
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