autotranslation

English

Alternative forms
  • auto-translation

Etymology

auto- +‎ translation

Noun

autotranslation (countable and uncountable, plural autotranslations)

  1. Translation of a work into another language by its original author.
    • 2006, Neil Cornwell, The absurd in literature, page 247:
      Beckett produced autotranslations of the first two works, but gave up on Worstward Ho, deeming it 'untranslatable'...
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