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translation (n.)
Related entries & more mid-14c., "removal of a saint's body or relics to a new place," also "rendering of a text from one language to another," from Old French translacion "translation" of text, also of the bones of a saint, etc. (12c.) or directly from Latin translationem (nominative translatio) "a carrying across, removal, transporting; transfer of meaning," noun of action from past-participle stem of transferre "bear across, carry over; copy, translate" (see transfer (v.)).
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Fortran (n.)computer programming language, 1956, from combination of elements from formula + translation.
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Related entries & more "an erroneous translation," 1690s, from mis- (1) + translation.
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final solution (n.)1947, translation of German Endlösung, name given to Nazi Jewish policy from 1941.
Related entries & more Erl-king (n.)1797, in Scott's translation of Goethe, from German Erl-könig, fiend who haunts the depths of forests in German and Scandinavian poetic mythology, literally "alder-king;" according to OED, Herder's erroneous translation of Danish ellerkonge "king of the elves." Compare German Eller, Erle "alder" (see alder).
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