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English translation: International committee on illumination

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French term or phrase:	cie (Commission Internationale d'Éclairage)
English translation:	International committee on illumination
Entered by:	DocteurPC

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17:30 Jul 14, 2005

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Education / Pedagogy

French term or phrase: cie

This abbreviation appears in the top portion of a student transcript from a French university. The "e" has an accent like "etudiant" and the abbrev. is followed by "f". One possibility I found is "ISC - International Student Council", but I'm not sure if this is correct. The transcript reads as follows:
cie: f
[stamp of the Division des Etudes et de la Vie Etudiante of the university]

Mary Quinn KudoZ activity Questions: 68 (2 open) Answers: 11
Local time: 03:36

International committee on illumination

Explanation:
Commission Internationale d'Éclairage

est-ce que c'était pour un étudiant en génie électrique, peut-être
was it for a student in electrical engineering?

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DocteurPC
Canada
Local time: 03:36

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International committee on illumination

DocteurPC

Conseil international des étudiants

John Peterson

as it is

xxxBesmir

certified

Merit

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

13 mins confidence:

certified

Explanation:
This is a guess, a stab in the dark if there ever was one.
As in : "certifié(e)".????
Good luck....

Merit
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

16 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

International committee on illumination

Explanation:
Commission Internationale d'Éclairage

est-ce que c'était pour un étudiant en génie électrique, peut-être
was it for a student in electrical engineering?

Reference: http://acronymfinder.com

DocteurPC
Canada
Local time: 03:36
Native speaker of:

French,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Graded automatically based on peer agreement.

1 hr confidence:

as it is

Explanation:
I just remembered that universities love to use Latin and all it has to do with it, so maybe this is just one of the ancient Latin ways in which Student organization wanted to confirm that this student was its member?

I am saying this because I found this site that deals with reconstruction of medieval usage of Latin in French:

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~merrilee/oxford.htm

xxxBesmir
Local time: 09:36
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Bosnian

1 hr confidence:

Conseil international des étudiants

Explanation:
NOT FOR GRADING

Your ISC translation could be right, with "f" standing for France. It crops up in the link below, but nowhere else as far as I can tell.

Reference: http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/definition/english...

John Peterson
Local time: 08:36
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

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