latte liquido

English translation: liquid infant formula

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Italian term or phrase:latte liquido
English translation:liquid infant formula
Entered by: Daniel Gold

02:26 Dec 9, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Retail / publicity magazine
Italian term or phrase: latte liquido
A major producer of packaging materials is publishing a magazine for publicity purposes and having it translated into English. One of the sections is on packages containing milk products for infants. The term I've encountered and cannot find is "latte liquido", which sounds strange but that's the way it is.

Here's some context:

Realizzata nel mese di giugno, l’indagine ha messo in evidenza la crescente sovrapposizione dell’acquisto di latte in polvere e latte liquido da parte delle mamme italiane indipendentemente dalla fascia d’età del bambino. Questo capita soprattutto nel Nord-Italia, mentre il Sud si conferma territorio quasi esclusivo del latte liquido, scelto oltre che per la sua praticità di consumo e funzionalità anche per la sua vicinanza al latte classico considerato più nutriente.

I'm thinking "baby formula" or merely "formula", but that's not always made from milk.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Daniel Gold
Israel
Local time: 00:12
liquid infant formula
Explanation:
Clearly this isn't normal cow's milk, but "infant formula":

http://www.neolatte.it/composizione_del_latte_artificiale.ph...
Latte artificiale: liquido o in polvere

Il latte artificiale per neonati è prodotto sia liquido, cioè pronto all'uso, sia nella più consueta formulazione in polvere.

Infant formula comes in the traditional powdered form but also in liquid form, so you need to specify.
I think that if you say "liquid milk" in English people will think of ordinary cow's milk. I think that very few Italian mothers are giving their children reconstituted powdered cow's milk.

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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 01:12
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4 +5liquid infant formula
James (Jim) Davis
4liquid milk
Daniel Frisano
4fluid milk
Emiliano Pantoja


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liquid milk


Explanation:
I think they just mean milk in liquid form, as opposed to dry milk

Daniel Frisano
Italy
Local time: 23:12
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
liquid infant formula


Explanation:
Clearly this isn't normal cow's milk, but "infant formula":

http://www.neolatte.it/composizione_del_latte_artificiale.ph...
Latte artificiale: liquido o in polvere

Il latte artificiale per neonati è prodotto sia liquido, cioè pronto all'uso, sia nella più consueta formulazione in polvere.

Infant formula comes in the traditional powdered form but also in liquid form, so you need to specify.
I think that if you say "liquid milk" in English people will think of ordinary cow's milk. I think that very few Italian mothers are giving their children reconstituted powdered cow's milk.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2011-12-09 07:50:18 GMT)
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http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 01:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Maria Luisa Dell'Orto: As mother of 2 I can confirm :) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="key fittings"&um=1&hl=en&s...
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  -> Thanks Maria. As a mother of none I'm glad to see my research skills are working well :)

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