traductor

Definition

translator.

Etymology

From Latin trāductiō, from trādūcō (“lead across, bring across”), from trans (“across, beyond”) + dūcō (“bear, carry”).

Example Sentences

• "This early use of the words is most decisive of their meaning : when the two languages reflect the same meaning, the evidence overflows. Both are consecrated to one religious idea. Who could be so well qualified as the Alexandrine traductors to construe Mosaic phrase, — not only by a knowledge of the Hebrew language, but by an accurate acquaintance with the manner in which these terms had always been understood?"
• "There are doctors, traductors, advocates, doctors in law, bookkeepers notaries, etc., amongst women."
• "Thus, at the Virgin's side may he seen a piece of stone; beside a crucifix a cutting of wood." (And, in a case witnessed by the traductor, human skulls beside the altar.)"