Interpreter vs Hermeneut - What's the difference?
interpreter | hermeneut | Synonyms |
One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.
(figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
(computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.
(philosophy) A practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text
*{{quote-book, year=1857, date=May 25, author=Professor Lumsden, chapter=Conversion of the Jews, title=Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA46&id=chsEAAAAQAAJ, page=46
, passage=Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts
*{{quote-book, year=1989, chapter=Introduction, title=Post-Jungian Criticism, author=George H. Jensen, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=C7T_JwlcPJoC&pg=PA3&, page=3
, passage=He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.}}
*{{quote-book, year=2008, title=Cambridge Companion to Jung, chapter=The Archetypal School, author=Michael Vannoy Adams, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&pg=PA114, page=114
, passage=In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret it, or reduce it to a concept.}}
Interpreter is a synonym of hermeneut.
As a verb interpreter
is (label) to translate.As a noun hermeneut is
(philosophy) a practitioner of hermeneutics: someone who interprets a text.interpreter
English
(wikipedia interpreter)Noun
(en noun)- A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.
- Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter , though some can be compiled.