transliterator
nounEtymology From transliterate + -or.
1
One who transliterates.
- The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original.1986 April 28, J[onathan] J[eremy] Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1:
- Related terms
- transliterate, transliteration