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CONGREGATIVO

English translation: collective

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Spanish term or phrase:CONGREGATIVO
English translation:collective
Entered by: Barbara Cochran, MFA

07:40 Jul 20, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics
Spanish term or phrase: CONGREGATIVO
No context, but this is the name of a morpheme which "...Usualmente significa recoger o juntar por la acción."
zabrowa
Local time: 19:57
collective morpheme
Explanation:
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 13:57
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1congregational / assembly
Jenni Lukac (X)
4which convenes/gathers/collects/reunites/reunifies/assembles
Sandra García Alonso
4collective morpheme
Barbara Cochran, MFA


  

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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
which convenes/gathers/collects/reunites/reunifies/assembles


Explanation:
I know exactly what it mean but it is difficult to find a word in English:

which ...

gathers, collects; reunites, reunifies; assembles; convenes

Good luck

Sandra García Alonso
Spain
Local time: 19:57
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
congregational / assembly


Explanation:
This word must be translated in many different ways according to context and syntax, but it refers to the act of acting jointly, as a group. If your reference refers to the right to congregate, it is termed as the right of assembly or the freedom of assembly. I have seen the word assembly used as a qualifying adjective (see second reference).

Example sentence(s):
  • A congregational democracy existed in the colonies before a political democracy
  • Most city-states of the Greek world of assembly democracy, Mantinea and Argos for instance, were no bigger than a few score square kilometres. ...

    Reference: http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1999/0310/middlekauff.ht...
    Reference: http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575112/democracy.h...
Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 19:57
Native speaker of: English
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agree  Patricia Novelo
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
collective morpheme


Explanation:
Google "collective morpheme."

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 13:57
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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