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TRANSLATE
Definition of TRANSLATE
verb
Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another. To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,664)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRANSLATE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRANSLATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRANSLATE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAELNRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and A appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TRANSL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRANSLATE?
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