original text
Primary written version
Original text refers to source material in its earliest or unaltered form—the version from which translations, adaptations, or editions derive.
A translator works from the original text; a student compares an adaptation to the original text.
The phrase often implies authenticity or authority: The original text says nothing about that.
- source materialOriginal work adapted from
- primary sourceUnmediated evidence from events
- pageNoble's young assistant
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- draftPreliminary version of text
manuscript · creation · parchment · scribe · autograph · editio princeps · palimpsest · urtext · first edition · exegesis · ink · vellum · provenance · author · unchanged · critical edition · unedited · lost in translation
- originalsauthentic, genuine, prototype, archetype, master copy
- editionsedition, reprint, first pressing, second edition, limited edition
- manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
- textual criticismcritical apparatus, collation, emendation, recension, variant
- textual scholarshipemendation, collation, emendations, critical edition, critical apparatus
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
original textedited version
Altered text, improved
revision · updated version · redacted text · second draft · final version
original textforgery
Creating fraudulent imitations
counterfeit · copy · reproduction · fake · derivative work
original texttranslation
Converting between languages
adaptation · derivative work · rendering · paraphrase · summary
original, text, originate, origin, origins, originals, originally, originality, originating