From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[decipherment]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
As [en], but not retaining the [en] from the [fro] etyma of [en] ([fro],
[fro]); the [en] spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being
consistent with its cognates, the [fr] and the [it], and with their common
ancestor, the [ML.], [la], [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To convert a code or cipher to plain text .
2. [en] To read text that is almost illegible or obscure
3. [en] To make sense of a complex situation .
4. * [page=13]
5. [en] To find a solution to a problem .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to decode or decrypt a code or cipher]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to read illegible or obscure text]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to find a solution]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A decipherment ; a decoding .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1837 | author=Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington; John Gurwood | title=The Dispatches of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G.
|passage=I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the
Marques de Monsalud, containing the DECIPHER of a letter from the King to the
Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here
[...]}}
*** Anagrams
- [en]