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Spanish term or phrase:
decálogo
English translation:
decalogue
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Carolina Mendez
Oct 31, 2004 01:49
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decálogo
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| 5 +1 | decalogue |
Henry Hinds
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| 5 +4 | list of ten items |
Patricia Rosas
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Henry Hinds
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decalogue
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Can be ten of many kinds of items, often rules such as the 10 Commandments which are a "decalogue".
Can be ten of many kinds of items, often rules such as the 10 Commandments which are a "decalogue".
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Patricia Rosas
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list of ten items
No context? Without that it is hard to know if this would work, but I recently translated it as a "list of ten items" (perfectly suitable to the context I had). "Decalogue" is sometimes used loosely in English, but its specific meaning: a basic set of rules carrying binding authority (as the Ten Commandments found in Exod. 20: 2-17 and Deut. 5: 6-21 which in the biblical account were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai)
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Xenia Wong
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thank you!
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Henry Hinds
: I didn't look at your full answer until afterwards, and realized you had covered the same territory!
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that's okay, Henry :-) fwiw decalogue is a calque & I'd use it only if the author were stretching for a Biblical metaphor (p.e., the "10 commandments of criminal justice") .
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Lisa Russell
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
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