Template:transterm/documentation

Usage

This template may be used within citations or quotes of works translated from another language to illustrate how a specific term is translated. As such, it should be used within the body of citations, following the appropriate word. It uses {{l}} as a basis. To request addition of this template, use {{rftransterm}}.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= – The language code of the original language; equivalent to parameter |1= of {{l}}.
• |2= – The headword form of the term in the original language; equivalent to parameter |2= of {{l}}.
• |3= – The display form of the term in the original language; equivalent to parameter |3= of {{l}}.
• |tr= – A transliteration of the original language term into the Latin alphabet; equivalent to parameter |tr= of {{l}}.
• |sc= – The appropriate script code the term in the original language; equivalent to parameter |sc= of {{l}}.

Examples

In isolation

• Wikitext:
  • ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme '''ſweuenes''' {{transterm|la|somnia}}
• Result:
  • ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes [translating somnia]

In context

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Wycliffe NT Lichfield|Acts|2|17|91|v|column=2|passage=⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme '''ſweuenes''' {{transterm|la|somnia}}|translation="And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: "I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream '''dreams''' […] }}
• Result:
  • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, page 91v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

    ⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes [translating somnia]

    "And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: "I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]