means A person or program that turns words or text from one language into another so the meaning carries across.

from From Latin translatus, the past participle of transferre, 'to carry across' (trans-, 'across,' plus ferre, 'to carry')—so a translator is, quite literally, someone who carries meaning over from one tongue to another. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period, alongside its sibling 'transfer,' both born of the same act of bearing something from one place to the next.