types of translation

4. types of translation types of translation introduction etymologically, "translation" is a "carrying across" or "bringing across" the modern romance, germanic and slavic european languages have generally formed their own equivalent terms for this concept after the latin model — after "transferre" or after the kindred "traducere" ("to bring across" or "to lead across") introduction the latin "translation" derives from "translatum," of "transferre" ("to transfer" — from "trans," "across" + "ferre," "to carry" or "to bring") additionally, the greek term for "translation," "metaphrasis" ("a speaking across"), has supplied english with "metaphrase" — a "literal translation," or "word-for-word" translation — as contrasted with "paraphrase" ("a saying in other words," from the greek "paraphrasi...

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