🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

texto fuente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈteksto ˈfwente

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Source-text/ˈsɔːrs.tɛkst/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El traductor mantuvo la estructura original del texto fuente."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The original text in a source language that is to be translated into another language.

    "The translator compared the target text line by line with the source-text to ensure accuracy."
  2. 2

    An original document, script, or writing used as a basis for further work, citation, or analysis.

    "Researchers examined the ancient manuscript to establish it as the primary source-text for the new edition."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'source' (from Latin 'surgere', to rise) and 'text' (from Latin 'texere', to weave). Emerging strongly in the 20th century with the rise of modern translation studies and computational linguistics, it refers to the original text from which translation or derivation takes place.

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