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cuspide

English translation: spire

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Italian term or phrase:cuspide
English translation:spire
Entered by: xlationhouse

18:19 Feb 13, 2007
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture
Italian term or phrase: cuspide
From a tourist brochure. Here is the passage:

Il campanile esagonale è stato eretto in un secondo momento rispetto alla costruzione originaria, a metà dell’Ottocento.... La cuspide invece è opera novecentesca....

I translated cuspide as "cusp". But seeing definitions and depictions of a cusp ("A curved, triangular-shaped projection from the inner curve of an arch or circle") while doing my research, it seemed to me there would be more than one cusp in this cathedral, no? Or, is there another appropriate meaning/translation?
xlationhouse
United States
Local time: 01:59
spire
Explanation:
I accept non responsibility, but my trusty Sansoni dictionary, which unlike many of its peers seldom makes mistakes, gives me Arch. spire, pinnacle. I might also add steeple.
These images would seem to corroborate that.
http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&sa=N&sourceid=deskb...
As for how many an Italian cathedral would have, I don't know, but the bell tower, might have a later spire built on top of it. Obviously a bell tower, does not need to be the same thing as the spire or pinnacle of a cathedral. Bell towers can stand alone (or nearby) as it were.


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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 12:59
Grading comment
Thanks also to Eride!

Jim, you are right! I went back and forth on this - the glossary of medieval architecture depicted something completely different, but when I revisited photos of the cathedral, there it is: a tall 20th-century spire! So, thanks again!
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eride
3spire
James (Jim) Davis


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cusp


Explanation:
oppure: cuspidal = cuspidale.

Ciao e buon lavoro.

eride
Local time: 10:59
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aïda Garcia Pons: I'd stick to cusp, too. http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.html
5 hrs
  -> Grazie 1000 Aida
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spire


Explanation:
I accept non responsibility, but my trusty Sansoni dictionary, which unlike many of its peers seldom makes mistakes, gives me Arch. spire, pinnacle. I might also add steeple.
These images would seem to corroborate that.
http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&sa=N&sourceid=deskb...
As for how many an Italian cathedral would have, I don't know, but the bell tower, might have a later spire built on top of it. Obviously a bell tower, does not need to be the same thing as the spire or pinnacle of a cathedral. Bell towers can stand alone (or nearby) as it were.


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Note added at 12 mins (2007-02-13 18:32:46 GMT)
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Correction "I accept no responsibility..."

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 12:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 281
Grading comment
Thanks also to Eride!

Jim, you are right! I went back and forth on this - the glossary of medieval architecture depicted something completely different, but when I revisited photos of the cathedral, there it is: a tall 20th-century spire! So, thanks again!
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