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Mining & Minerals / Gems / Diamond | | French term or phrase: parcelliers | The Group's investigations provided it with the names of people involved in the trade in rough diamonds, including parcelliers, sous collecteurs, collecteurs and buyers.
What does the word "parcelliers" mean? Any English or Chinese equivalent?
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| | Chinese translation:宝石矿主 | Explanation:
I think there is no doubt that the word parcellier comes from parcelle.
Parcelle means a little piece of land or cut something into pieces.
I think it is more logical that the word parcellier refers to the person that owns the mine, for 2 reasons:
1. The technicien that cuts rough diamonds is called tailleur (切割者) . A tailleur is only a technicien paid by his work who doesn't involve in the trade. The real trader is the mind owner, the one that owns the piece of land, therefore any nature ressource that goes out of his land. Only he has the power to exploit the mine and resell rough diamonds to buyers.
2. Parcelle refers more often to lands.
So parcellier means the person that owns the "parcelle" ( the mine, the land or the ground, where the rough diamond is extracted from)
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  Hsing-ju SHEN
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| Grading comment It makes sense in the context. Thank you Hsing-ju and all for the inputs.
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11 hrs confidence: 劈开者 ? (just a guess)
Explanation:
Could be a special term used in gemmology.
In French a "parcelle" is:
"A. 1. Petite partie (surtout de matière). Synon. fragment. Parcelles d'or ou de platine, de métal, de radium, de gypse, de bois; […]"
(in English = a small part of (especially for matter). Synonym of fragment. (fragment of gold, etc.) )
Cf. Trésor de la Langue française informatisé, http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/affart.exe?19;s...
So, a "parcellier" could be a person specialised in the fragmentation of diamonds, or something like that. I don't know anything in gemmology, sorry.
/-IER/ is a suffix in French = a person who do the thing described by the noun. The final "s", as in english, marks the plural.
The French has two verbs associate to "parcelle" => "parceller" and "parcelliser", and a noun "parcellisation" to designate the action of the verb, but has no noun, at least as far as I know, to designate the person who do the "parcellisation".
That's why I guess a "parcellier" could be a jargon used in gemmology to designate the person who cut the diamond…
Hope this can help you or someone who could help you to find the good Chinese term.
劈开 is used in mineralogy = cleavage
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Note added at 11 hrs (2009-09-19 03:56:49 GMT)
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Sorry, the "parcelliers" could also be the persons involved in the delimitation of the ground where diamond should be extract from.
It seems to me more logical in the context of the trade of diamonds…
Reference: http://atilf.atilf.fr
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cutting
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