English

Etymology

Derived from Latin transliteratus past participle of transliterare "to transliterate", from trans- "across" + littera "letter"

Noun

transliteration

1. The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

Translations

• Chinese (simplified): 意译 (yiyi)
• Chinese (traditional): 意譯
• Dutch: transliteratie
• French: transcription , translittération
• German: Transkription
• Greek: μεταγραφή (metagraphé)
• Italian: trascrizione , traslitterazione
• Japanese: 字訳 (jiyaku)
• Korean: 음역
• Latin: transcriptio f nom. (Classical and Vulgar Latin), transcriptionis f gen. (Classical and Vulgar Latin), translitteratio f nom. (Neo-Latin), translitterationis f gen. (Neo-Latin)
• Portuguese: transcrição , transliteração
• Russian: транслитерирование
• Spanish: transcripción , transliteración