source text
Material being quoted
Source text is the original document from which a translation, adaptation, or derivative work is produced.
A translator works from the source text to create a version in another language.
In textual criticism, the source text is the earlier manuscript that later copies derive from.
The term appears in computing for code before compilation, and in academic writing for primary materials being analyzed: The source text contains ambiguities that complicate translation.
- equivalenceState of being equal
- target languageLanguage being acquired
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- holy writSacred authoritative writings
- working draftPreliminary version under revision
copy · word for word · lost in translation · close reading · provenance · unedited · quote · localization · passage · document · excerpt · citation · origin · footnote · material · input · attribution · authentic
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- originalsoriginal, authentic, genuine, prototype, archetype
- translation termstranslation, literal translation, free translation, word-for-word, target language
- poetry translationliterary translation, target language, faithful translation, literal translation
- textual criticismcritical apparatus, collation, emendation, recension, variant
- textual scholarshipemendation, collation, emendations, critical edition, critical apparatus
source textcommentary
Explanatory remarks on events
derivative work · adaptation · interpretation · analysis · gloss
text, source, resource, texture, resources, resourceful, sources, resourcefulness, sourced