What is gloss translation?

Meaning of gloss translation in translation dictionaryWhat is gloss translation?
';A gloss is a translation or brief explanation of difficult or technical text. A gloss can appear in the margin, between the lines of a text, or as a footnote.';


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';A gloss (from Koine Greek 纬位蠋蟽蟽伪 glossa, meaning 'tongue') is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained, sometimes in another language. As such, glosses can vary in thoroughness and complexity, from simple marginal notations of words one reader found difficult or obscure, to entire interlinear translations of the original text and cross references to similar passages.





A collection of glosses is a glossary. A collection of medieval legal glosses, made by so called glossators, commenting legal texts, is called an apparatus. The compilation of glosses into glossaries was the beginning of lexicography, and the glossaries so compiled were in fact the first dictionaries.';








';Glosses are of some importance in philology, especially if one language鈥攗sually, the language of the author of the gloss鈥攈as left few texts of its own. The Reichenau glosses, for example, gloss the Latin Vulgate Bible in an early form of one of the Romance languages, and as such give insight into late Vulgar Latin at a time when that language was not often written down. A series of glosses in the Old English language to Latin Bibles give us a running translation of Biblical texts in that language; see Old English Bible translations. Glosses of Christian religious texts are also important for our knowledge of Old Irish. Glosses frequently shed valuable light on the vocabulary of otherwise little attested languages; they are less reliable for syntax, because many times the glosses follow the word order of the original text, and translate its idioms literally.';








Hope that helped.What is gloss translation?
Do you mean gross translation?