... “metaphrase,” meaning a literal, or word-for-word, translation, as contrasted with “paraphrase” (a “saying in other words,” from the Greek paraphrasis). According to Larson, a famous linguistician: ... Word-for-word translation 9 I.4.2 Literal translation 9 I.4.3 Faithful translation 10 I.4.4 Semantic translation 10 I.4.5 Free translation 11 I.4.6 Idiomatic translation 11 I.4.7 Communicative translation ... referred as hereinafter I.1 Definition of translation Etymologically, translation is, a “carrying across” or “bringing across”: the Latin translatio derives from transferre (trans, “across”+...