# interpres
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* interprex (Epigraphic Latin)

### Etymology

From inter (“between”) + a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to sell, traffic in”), extended sense from *per- (“forward”), with proposed developments *enter-poro- (“going between”) ⇒ *enter-pore-t- (“who goes between”) (t-stem derivation) and *enterpŏress (with addition of the nominative singular case ending -s and assimilation of the -et to the ending) > *enterpress (with syncope) > interpres.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈter.pres/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛrprɛs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈter.pres/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛrpres]

### Noun

interpres m or f (genitive interpretis); third declension
* An agent between two parties; broker, mediator, negotiator, factor, messenger
    Synonyms: cōciō, arillātor
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.356–358:“Nunc etiam interpres dīvom, Iove missus ab ipsō — testor utrumque caput — celerīs mandāta per aurās dētulit [...].“And now even the messenger of the gods, sent from Jove himself – I swear by your life and mine – has delivered commands [to me] through the swift winds.” (The messenger was Mercury. Syncopation: “divom” for “divorum”.)
* A translator, interpreter, expounder, expositor, explainer; dragoman
    Synonyms: coniector, commentātor, interpretātor, trānslātor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* interpretor

#### Related terms

* interpretābilis
* interpretāmentum
* interpretātiō
* interpretātiuncula
* interpretātor
* interpretātōrius
* interpretātrīx
* interpretātus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: intérprete
* Catalan: intèrpret
* French: interprète
* Galician: intérprete
* German: Interpret
* Italian: interprete
* Portuguese: intérprete
* Spanish: intérprete
** → Tagalog: interprete

### References

* “interpres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “interpres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* interpres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* interpres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. an interpreter of dreams: somniorum interpres, coniector the translator: interpres
* “interpres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* interpres in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “interpres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307
* ↑ “interpret”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.