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to retranslate

to retranslate

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To put a text into another language again to make it more accurate or better for a new audience
  • verb
  • /ˌriːtrænˈsleɪt/
: retraducir
  • But I still wish that they would just adopt Cranmer and get a good 17th-century scholar to retranslate the necessary amendments.
  • retranslate the manual

I I retranslate Kingdom of Heaven into modern terminology.

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Examples

  • The scale was translated into Hebrew and retranslated into English by bilingual individuals; it was tested by independent judges for comparability and relevance.

    Academic text (2002)
  • In about twenty cases, they were retranslated to check for accuracy.

    Blog text (25)
  • And as I was retranslating it and rereading it, I found many different shapes to the poem.

  • It's the Pentateuch and it's retranslated in a very startling style.

  • Mr. Birnbaum first translated it in 1975 and retranslated it in 1995.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Ussher's Annals of the World has been retranslated from the Latin original (Pierce 2003).

    Blog text (8)
  • This is particularly true of a survivor of the Holocaust and self-exiled writer like Federman, who has had to continually retranslate his life story into new narrative patterns and languages.

    Academic text (1994)
  • In his mid-20s, he took it upon himself to retranslate Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" from the German, in collaboration with Jay Wilson, when he could not find an English-language version that satisfied him.

    Blog text (9)
  • To ensure clarity, I had to retranslate the article into more straightforward language.

  • The publisher decided to retranslate the novel to better resonate with modern readers.

Surface Forms

retranslate infinitive
retranslated past participle
retranslating present participle
retranslates third person singular

Morphology

retranslate = translate (transparent) = re + translate

The prefix 're-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'again' to the verb 'translate'.

Etymology

Retranslate starts with re- meaning 'again' and the part translate, which comes from a word that means 'to carry across', like transport. So to retranslate is to 'translate again' to make the meaning clearer or better fit a new situation.