interpretor

interpretor (plural interpretors)

1. Archaic form of interpreter.

From interpres (“agent, translator”) +‎ -ārī (“to be ~ed”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛr.prɛ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈt̪ɛr.pre.t̪or]

interpretor (present infinitive interpretārī, perfect active interpretātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to explain, expound
2. to interpret, translate
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate In Job praefatio:

     Hoc unum scio, non potuisse me interpretari, nisi quod ante intellexeram.

     I only know this one thing: I could not translate what I did not understand.

   • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae 7.5.1:

     Angeli Graece vocantur, Hebraice malachoth, Latine vero nuntii interpretantur, ab eo quod Domini voluntatem populis nuntiant.

     Angels are called thus in Greek, and malakhoth in Hebrew, [literally] translated into Latin as "messengers" because they deliver God's will to the [world's] many peoples.

3. to understand, conclude

• interpretābilis
• interprex

• “interpretor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interpretor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interpretor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to explain a dream: somnium interpretari
    
  • to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari
    
• interpretor in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from French enterpreter.

interpretor n (plural interpretoare)

1. interpreter