Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

cenefa

English translation:

decorative border [tile(s)]

Added to glossary by Lorenzo Elizalde
Jul 24, 2007 07:38
17 yrs ago
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Spanish term

cenefa

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
Parece ser que el término correcto para una cenefa cerámica (Dibujo de ornamentación que se pone a lo largo de los muros, suelos y techos y suele consistir en elementos repetidos de un mismo adorno) es frieze o border, pero mirando en páginas de fabricantes cerámicos utilizan una u otra. Querría saber si una es mejor que otra o si depende del país. Un ejemplo sería http://www.ceramicaferres.com/eng/index-ferres.html.
Gracias y un saludo.

Discussion

Lorenzo Elizalde (asker) Jul 24, 2007:
Contexto Perdonad, pero es cierto que no he dado mucho contexto. Se trata del catálogo de un fabricante de revestimentos cerámicos y no aparece en una frase sino en un listado, por lo que no tengo más. Tengo las baldosas, por un lado, y las cenefas, por otro. La url que he puesto sería un buen ejemplo.

Necesito que os decantéis por una opción, por favor. Gracias por las molestias.

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decorative border [tile(s)]

Which one I'd use would depend on the sentence and the context, which you haven't given. Therefore, I can't put a high confidence level.

I associate frieze more with architecture (bias relief).
Indoors, technically, a frieze is a decorative panel at the top of a wall. As I understand it, the ceramic tiles can be used to make a band of decoration anywhere on the wall or floor.

So, I'd tend toward border, not frieze.

The site you indicated
http://www.ceramicaferres.com/eng/index-girona.html
has many simple errors in English (... are make by hand; frizes, etc.), so I wouldn't look to it for answers.

frieze1 /friz/ [freez] –noun 1. Architecture. a. the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief.
b. any decorative band on an outside wall, broader than a stringcourse and bearing lettering, sculpture, etc.

2. any decorative band at the top or beneath the cornice of an interior wall, a piece of furniture, etc.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/frieze

cenefa = (arquit) border
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-spanish/cenefa



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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-07-24 10:10:44 GMT)
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OK, if it's in a list, I'd go with
Decorative/ornamental border tiles
Peer comment(s):

agree Noni Gilbert Riley : So would I!
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Thanks so much, Noni! ;->
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I think you are right. After some thinking and researching frieze sounds to me as friso, as in Greek classic architecture. "
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ver ref.

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frieze

see their own website, both the ENG and the SPA versions (link below)
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agree bigedsenior
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