translate Copy link Outline I. To render into another language1. verto or converto, ti, sum, 3 (most usu. expr.)2. transfĕro, 3, irr. (not so in Cic.)3. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (esp. of literal rendering)4. interprĕtor, 1II. To carry up to heavenIII. To remove a bishop to another see • translate: I. To render into another language: 1. verto or converto, ti, sum, 3 (most usu. expr.): to t. a book out of Greek into Latin, librum e Graeco in Latinum c., Cic. Off. 2, 24, extr.: so, Graeca in Latinum vertere, Quint. 10, 5, 2: Liv.: also, in Latinum sermonem convertere, Col. 1, 1, med.: (works) t.d from the Greek, de Graecis conversa, Cic. Fin. 1, 2, 6. [N.B.--Vertere alone may mean simply to paraphrase: Quint. 10, 5, 5, vertere orationes Latinas.] 2. transfĕro, 3, irr. (not so in Cic.): to t. anything from the Greek, aliquid ex Graeco tr., Quint. 2, 15, 21: to t. literally, ad verbum tr., id. 7, 4, 7: t.d works of Plato, libri Platonis translati, id. 10, 5, 2: Plin. (In Cic. Att. 6, 2, 2, istum locum totidem verbis a Dicaearcho transtuli, the sense is copied, transferred, not t.d.) 3. reddo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3 (esp. of literal rendering): to t. word for word, verbum pro verbo r., Cic. Opt. Gen. 5, 14 (where this literal rendering is distinguished from the higher style of translation, nec converti ut interpres, sed ut orator ... non verbum pro verbo necesse habui reddere, sed genus omnium verborum vimque servavi): Hor. In same sense, verbum e verbo exprimere, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 31. 4. interprĕtor, 1: v. to interpret. [N.B.--Not traduco: Kr.] Phr.: Cicero t.d the work for the use of people speaking Latin, Cicero eum librum Latinae consuetudini tradidit, Col. 12, pref. II. To carry up to heaven: tollo, 3 (in coelum): and in Vulg. transfero, 3, irr.: Heb. xi. 5. III. To remove a bishop to another see: best word perh. trādūco (trans.), 3: v. to transfer (2).