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English translation: nombre de fantasía

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Spanish term or phrase:	fancy name
English translation:	nombre de fantasía
Entered by:	Frances Lake

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17:03 Feb 21, 2007

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Spanish term or phrase: fancy name

Is this term used to mean "Nombre de fantasía" of a company or is there anything better?
Thanks

Fernando Garetto KudoZ activity Questions: 73 (9 open) (2 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 4 Chile
Local time: 09:03

nombre de fantasía

Explanation:
This is what they call it in the Register of Companies and the Register of Commerce in my country

Selected response from:

Frances Lake
Local time: 10:03

Grading comment

Muchas gracias.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +8

nombre de fantasía

Frances Lake

5 +2

doing business as / trading as

Rosa Diez Tagarro

4 +3

nombre rimbombante

patricia scott

nombre estrafalario

Marsha Wilkie

nombre artístico

Egmont

NOMBRE ELEGANTE

Rafael Mondragon Hernandez

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

1 min confidence:

NOMBRE ELEGANTE

Explanation:
JUST GUESSING, GOOD LUCK!

Rafael Mondragon Hernandez
Local time: 06:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 8

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

nombre de fantasía

Explanation:
This is what they call it in the Register of Companies and the Register of Commerce in my country

Example sentence(s):

Imagine a form: Denominación social: Nombre de fantasía:

Frances Lake
Local time: 10:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Muchas gracias.

5 mins confidence:

nombre artístico

Explanation:
+++++

yourdictionary.com -> Spanish

Egmont
Spain
Local time: 13:03
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

25 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

nombre rimbombante

Explanation:
Falta contexto, pero diría que cuando dices que una empresa tiene a fancy name, estás ironizando

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Note added at 26 mins (2007-02-21 17:29:41 GMT)
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quiere decir que es un nombre algo elaborado, pretencioso.

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 13:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 52

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Nombre de fantasía doing business as / trading as

Explanation:
See also http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1414026 for more options

Doing Business As (DBA) a Fictitious Business Name: Why and How
- [ Traduzca esta página ]
A fictitious business name, assumed name, or DBA (short for "doing business as"), gives entrepreneurs the ability to brand their businesses effectively with ...
entrepreneurs.about.com/od/businessstructure/a/doingbusinessas.htm

This site will help you register your DBA ( Doing Business As ), also known as your fictitious business name filing, online.
www.legalzoom.com/dba/index.html

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-21 18:14:36 GMT)
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Te pongo esta alternativa pq parece que lo que te interesa es la traducción al inglés de "nombre de fantasía", Fernando.

¡Suerte!

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/b/a

Rosa Diez Tagarro
Spain
Local time: 13:03
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

2 hrs confidence:

nombre estrafalario

Explanation:
Válido para varios contextos.

Marsha Wilkie
Colombia
Local time: 07:03
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

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Changes made by editors

Feb 21, 2007 - Changes made by Rosa Diez Tagarro:
Language pair	English to Spanish => Spanish to English

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