Etymology

traduction

T1R1A1D2U1C3T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The act of converting text from one language to another. Full definition →

Latin trāductiō, trāductiōnis
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtrāductiō, trāductiōnis“transferring, translation”
  2. English todaytraduction

From Latin trāductiō, trāductiōnis (“transferring, translation”, literally “leading across”), from trādūcō (“to lead across”), from trāns (“across”) + dūcō (“to lead”). By surface analysis, traduce + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.