Other forms: interpretations
An interpretation is one way of understanding what something means. A different interpretation, open to interpretation, the court's interpretation.
In law, interpretation of a statute decides what the words do, and whole doctrines exist about whether to follow the letter or the purpose. In music, the interpretation is what a performer brings to notes anybody can read.
1nouninterpretationOne way of understanding what something means.
“The poem is open to more than one interpretation.”
interpretation is an understanding.
Latin interpretatio comes from interpretari, to explain, from interpres, an agent or translator.
Latin
interpretātiō
Old French
interpretacion
Middle English
interpretacioun
English, today
interpretation
Built from
From Middle English interpretacioun, from the Anglo-Norman - form of Old French interpretacion, from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”). Morphologically interpret + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA