transverbate

Etymology

From trans- + Latin verbum (“word”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

verb

  1. To translate word by word, making only syntactic adjustments, but not adapting to the idiom of the target language.“If we could take the Hebrew and the Greek and transverbate them it would be comparatively easy; but we have to remember always that we are translating for a people who do not regard the Bible in any sense as a book of authority.”