Middle English Dictionary Entry
interpretātọ̄r n.
Entry Info
| Forms | interpretātọ̄r n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who interprets for persons speaking different languages; (b) a translator of the Scriptures; esp. one of the seventy scholars who made the Septuagint.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.397 : Austyn did londe..with xlti felawes and certayne interpretators [L interpretibus] taken from Fraunce.
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.33 : Eleazarus sende to hym vj men of euery tribe, lxxij in nowmbre..These men be the lxxti interpretatores.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.21 : Aquila..the secunde interpretator after the lxxti [Trev.: þe secounde after þe seventy þat tornede holy writte out of Hebrewe into Grewe] was in this tyme.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.47 : Simachus, the iiijthe interpretator was this tyme.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.183 : Seynte Ierome did translate the Bible..and correcte the psawter off the lxxta interpretatores [L septuaginta interpretum], usede in alle churches alle moste un til þat tyme.