Definitional translation¶

definitional_translation · translation · catalogued

A rendering in which each word of the source is replaced by its dictionary definition in the target language.

Provenance¶

Source: Marcel Bénabou and Georges Perec, littérature définitionnelle (1966)
Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
Checkability: source — decidable against the source text it was made from
Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details¶

Kind: both
Languages: en
Requires: tokens, lexicon.glosses.bilingual
Deterministic: yes

Notes¶

Blocked: replacing each word by its definition in the target language needs glosses in two languages. English glosses do not serve it, and no pack ships non-English ones. Named alongside homophonic_translation's phonemes.bilingual for the same reason.

Prompt hint¶

Replace each word of the source with its definition in the target language.