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laid in a chalky sub-flooring

Portuguese translation: aplicados num subpiso calcário


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12:33 Jun 5, 2011
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Science - Archaeology / visao remota, espiritualismo
English term or phrase: laid in a chalky sub-flooring
Contexto: ao chegar ao local da cidade submersa a médium tocou o chão e afirmou sentir ou poder ver:

"These tiles would be marble, smooth on one side and rough on the other. As part of the floor the tiles had been laid in a chalky sub-flooring. The tiles were one color each."
Nicole Rodrigues
Sweden
Local time: 19:22
Portuguese translation:aplicados num subpiso calcário
Explanation:
Ou "subsolo".
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Paula Pereira Fernandes
Portugal
Local time: 18:22
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1aplicados num subpiso calcário
Paula Pereira Fernandes
4assentados sobre uma base de calcário
Adriana Martins Vieira Querino
4postos (em cima) sobre (d)um sub-chão calcarino
Nick Taylor
3assentado sobre um contrapiso calcário
Marcos Antonio


  

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postos (em cima) sobre (d)um sub-chão calcarino


Explanation:
postos em cima dum sub-chão calcarino

Nick Taylor
Local time: 18:22
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assentados sobre uma base de calcário


Explanation:
Olá,

Eu traduziria como 'assentados sobre uma base de calcário'. Embora a palavra 'limestone', seja empregada em inglês para designar calcário, usa-se também 'chalky' (palavra que provavelmente se origina da palavra giz - 'chalk' em inglês - que é feito de calcário).

Espero ter sido útil.

Grande abraço,

Adriana



    Reference: http://www.uaum.uminho.pt/edicoes/revistas/Memorias_3.pdf
Adriana Martins Vieira Querino
Local time: 18:22
Native speaker of: Portuguese

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neutral  itineuropa: O termo certo é «ASSENTES sobre uma base de calcário»
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  -> 'Assentes' é mais adequado ao português de Portugal e 'ASSENTADOS' ao português brasileiro
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aplicados num subpiso calcário


Explanation:
Ou "subsolo".

Paula Pereira Fernandes
Portugal
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agree  Maria Amorim
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assentado sobre um contrapiso calcário


Explanation:
Sug.


- Brazilian Portuguese, contrapiso (slab, subfloor, mortar bed, sub flooring). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, mortar bed. ...
www.websters-dictionary-online.com/definition/Mortar bed


- Manual de assentamento e revestimento de pisos cerâmicos - piso ...Contrapiso: camada de argamassa sobre a qual é assentado o revestimento cerâmico . ..... calcários apresentam absorção elevada, não devendo receber chapisco. ...
www.scribd.com/.../Manual-de-assentamento-e-revestimento-de... ceramicos-piso-interno

Marcos Antonio
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