The word Translate derives from the Latin verb traducĕre, used to indicate a "transfer" from a starting point to an arrival point.

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It can therefore be deduced that translation is an action of transferring a message, with its meaning and its grammatical rules from a source language to a target language.

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However, Translation is actually a much more complex process, which purpose is to obtain a grammatically correct text, maintaining the original lexicon and respecting the original meaning.