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3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to convert words or text from one language into another
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Stage 1 of 3
transferre
Latin · ancient
"to carry across"
to carry across, from trans- (across) and ferre (to carry), with irregular past participle translatus
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Stage 2 of 3
translater
Old French · medieval
"to render text into another language"
carried into French for rendering text into another language
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Stage 3 of 3
translate
English · 1300s
"to convert text or speech from one language into another"
settled as the English word for converting text from one language to another
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