translate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
translate /transˈleɪt, trɑːns-, -nz-/

▶verb

• 1 express the sense of (words or text) in another language.

  ■ be expressed or be capable of being expressed in another language.

• 2 (translate into or translate something into) be converted or convert something into (another form or medium).

  ■ Biology convert (a sequence of nucleotides in messenger RNA) to an amino-acid sequence during protein synthesis.

• 3 move from one place or situation to another.

  ■ formal move (a bishop or, in Scotland, a minister) to another see or pastoral charge.

• 4 Physics & Mathematics cause to undergo translation.

– derivatives
translatability noun,
translatable adjective.

– origin ME: from L. translat-, transferre (see transfer).