Meanings
- not comparableNot translated; still in the original language.
The forms can be bizarrely funny when blown up to fill a canvas, as in "Supergastrico Compensado" (the artist prefers that his often punning titles remain untranslated), whose eroticized digestive systems have an appealing decorative flair.
1993 January 1, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times1 more example
They talked through complicated idioms, untranslated figures of speech and, most difficult, the difference between pronouns, a nonissue in English: When should characters who are close but still colleagues address each another as the informal “tu” or the formal “vous”?
2023 December 20, Joshua Barone, “When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishtranslated
- Englishuntranslated
From un- + translated.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish uoversat
- uoversatnot translated; in the original language
Dutch onvertaald
- onvertaaldnot translated; in the original language
French intraduit
- intraduitnot translated; in the original language
German unübersetzt
- unübersetztnot translated; in the original language
Greek αμεταγλώττιστος
- αμεταγλώττιστος (ametaglóttistos)not translated; in the original language
Hungarian nem lefordított, nem transzlálódó
- nem lefordítottnot converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein
- nem transzlálódónot converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein
- nem kódolónot converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein
Italian non tradotto
- non tradottonot translated; in the original language
Norwegian Bokmål uoversatt
- uoversattnot translated; in the original language
Swedish oöversatt
- oöversattnot translated; in the original language
Cite this entry
untranslated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untranslated
“untranslated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untranslated. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untranslated,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untranslated.
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