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untranslated

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ translated.

Adjective

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untranslated (not comparable)

  1. Not translated; still in the original language.
    • 1993 January 1, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The forms can be bizarrely funny when blown up to fill a canvas, as in "Supergastrico Compensado" (the artist prefers that his often punning titles remain untranslated), whose eroticized digestive systems have an appealing decorative flair.
    • 2023 December 20, Joshua Barone, “When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language”, in The New York Times[2]:
      They talked through complicated idioms, untranslated figures of speech and, most difficult, the difference between pronouns, a nonissue in English: When should characters who are close but still colleagues address each another as the informal “tu” or the formal “vous”?
  2. (biochemistry) Not converted from a processed mRNA sequence into a protein.

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