mediterraneidad

English translation: Mediterranean way of life, way, diet, style, influence

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Spanish term or phrase:mediterraneidad
English translation:Mediterranean way of life, way, diet, style, influence
Entered by: Comunican

09:52 Feb 17, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: mediterraneidad
I'm struggling to find a snappy way of expressing this....
NB: It's NOT "land-locked" :-)

At times "all things Mediterranean" works but it is a bit unwieldy especially in the first example below.
Has anyone else dealt with this please?

"Las marcas se desligan de orígenes de producción y establecen un vínculo de valores con el consumidor a través de la mediterraneidad y su diversidad"

"El ser embajadores por naturaleza de las excelencias de una dieta que aúna calidad, sabor y salud. Embajadores de la mediterraneidad en el mundo."

"En el corto plazo no podemos sino conseguir posiciones de liderazgo, invertir a nivel de clientes y consumidores en el conocimiento de la Mediterraneidad y esperar que algún día exista una explosión de consumo "

"basado en una calidad consistente sea cuál sea el origen del producto, acercando las bondades de la mediterraneidad a través de la experiencia de consumo de nuestros productos"

UK English please.

Many thanks
Comunican
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:08
Mediterranean way of life (adjusted for each sentence)
Explanation:
A concept to play with. I think that this is what the writer is trying to say. In at least one instance, you could use your phrase. I don't think it needs to be translated the same way throughout the text.
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Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 13:08
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Thanks Jenni and everyone else.
Much appreciated.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Mediterranean way of life (adjusted for each sentence)
Jenni Lukac (X)
4 +1Mediterranean label, Mediterranean life, Mediterranean style
Alidad Vassigh (X)
4 +1Mediterranean lifestyle
Carmen Schultz
4Mediterranean
Gwenydd Jones
4Mediterranean flavour (figurative)
David Hollywood
4Mediterranean diet
Lisa McCarthy
4Mediterranean nature
neilmac
3Mediterraneanism
Martina Pokupec (X)
3Mediterraneity
Claudia Reynaud


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Mediterranean way of life (adjusted for each sentence)


Explanation:
A concept to play with. I think that this is what the writer is trying to say. In at least one instance, you could use your phrase. I don't think it needs to be translated the same way throughout the text.

Jenni Lukac (X)
Local time: 13:08
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 123
Grading comment
Thanks Jenni and everyone else.
Much appreciated.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Simon Bruni: and just 'the Mediterranean way'
4 mins
  -> Thanks, Simon. Maybe varying his original, yours, mine...

agree  franglish: with Simon for the 2nd and 3rd instance, for the 1st and 4th I'd use Mediterranean quality.
28 mins
  -> Thanks franglish. I'd probably stick with "life" for the fourth, but I think the scheme you've suggested has a nice flow and rhythm.

agree  James A. Walsh
1 hr
  -> Cheers and thanks, James.

agree  philgoddard
3 hrs
  -> Cheers and thanks, Phil.
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Mediterranean


Explanation:
One suggestion and probably not the most original solution, but if you turn it into an adjective it fits much more easily into the sentences. For instance: Mediterranean diversity, Mediterranean embassadors, Mediterranean knowledge... you get the picture.

Gwenydd Jones
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neutral  philgoddard: This was my first thought, but it doesn't fit all the contexts.
3 hrs
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Mediterraneanism


Explanation:
just a suggestion

http://www.google.hr/search?as_q=Mediterraneanism&as_epq=&as...



Martina Pokupec (X)
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Mediterranean flavour (figurative)


Explanation:
my idea

David Hollywood
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Mediterranean label, Mediterranean life, Mediterranean style


Explanation:
You can play around with this perhaps, depending on the sentence or context. English seems to avoid "abstract" words, so you can find your way around it with combination or equivalent terms...

Example sentence(s):
  • "ambassadors of the Mediterranean style.."
Alidad Vassigh (X)
Local time: 13:08
Native speaker of: English

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agree  MedTrans&More: I like mediterranean life
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Mediterranean diet


Explanation:
As it's all about food:


"Las marcas se desligan de orígenes de producción y establecen un vínculo de valores con el consumidor a través de la mediterraneidad y su diversidad"
"....through the diversity of the Mediterranean diet."

"El ser embajadores por naturaleza de las excelencias de una dieta que aúna calidad, sabor y salud. Embajadores de la mediterraneidad en el mundo."
"World ambassadors for the Mediterranean diet."

"En el corto plazo no podemos sino conseguir posiciones de liderazgo, invertir a nivel de clientes y consumidores en el conocimiento de la Mediterraneidad y esperar que algún día exista una explosión de consumo "...of the Mediterranean diet...."

"basado en una calidad consistente sea cuál sea el origen del producto, acercando las bondades de la mediterraneidad a través de la experiencia de consumo de nuestros productos"
".....Mediterranean diet...


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Borges - Leading Brands of Spain Forum
**Ambassador for the Mediterranean diet.** The Borges Group has remained faithful to its origins since its beginning in 1896. The land and deep-rooted family ...
www.brandsofspain.com/brand/borges/ - Cached - Similar

Lisa McCarthy
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Mediterranean nature


Explanation:
... essence, spirit, character... features... (help, I'm running out of options)

neilmac
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Mediterranean lifestyle


Explanation:
I also thought of simply saying' Mediterranean Way '(as S. Bruni mentioned too)

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-02-17 11:30:08 GMT)
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Actually, the closest approximation would be "Mediterreanness"; I actually found many examples of this when I Googled the word.

Marseille Mediterranée: Feeling Europe and the Med during ...by N Quest - 2010
Second, I explore how 'Mediterraneanness' works discursively to categorize a set of sensory practices—such as beauty routines, cooking and eating practices, ...
www.allacademic.com/meta/p401730_index.html - Cached
Songs of the minotaur: hybridity and popular music in the era of ... - Google Books ResultGerhard Steingress - 2002 - Music - 325 pages
Mediterraneanness is precisely that idea which permits the crossing of these narrow territorial borders without the loss of certain identity traits. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=3825863638...
[PDF] Peer Reviewed Title: 'Il faut méditerraniser la peinture': Giorgio ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by AH Merjian - 2010 - Related articles
his supposed Mediterraneanness, however, the artist himself insisted otherwise. .... In the wake of widespread confirmation of his “Mediterraneanness,” ...
escholarship.org/uc/item/12d9s5vb.pdf

Carmen Schultz
Local time: 07:08
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes, often the complete lifestyle involved
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Mediterraneity


Explanation:
The literal translation, which much to my surprise, has about 1,500 google hits. A few examples:

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THE MEDITERRANEITY OF AQUITAINE: A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
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After a general presentation of the context in which the mediterraneity of ... Though this had been known for long, the notion of mediterraneity, coined by ...
tercud.ulusofona.pt/publicacoes/Book/15.pdf
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6 - Mediterraneity - Cambridge Books Online - Cambridge University ...
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We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most ...
ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid...cid... - En caché
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Is polecat (Mustela putorius) diet affected by “mediterraneity ...
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de MJ Santos - 2009
Given their population structure, it is predicted that polecats respond to mediterraneity by targeting the seasonally available food resources (small ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1616504709001323 - Similares
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A Phytoclimatic Approach to the Problem of Mediterraneity in the ...
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de VM Meher‐Homji - 1973 - Citado por 8 - Artículos relacionados
Cedrwr deodara occur under moderate degree of mediterraneity. ... close correlations with the degrees of mediterraneity, aridity and temperature regimes. ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fedr.19730830907/pdf
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A Phytoclimatic Approach to the Problem of Mediterraneity in the ...
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de VM Meher‐Homji - 1973 - Citado por 8 - Artículos relacionados
18 Apr 2008 ... The degrees of mediterraneity (pure, moderate, attenuated ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fedr.19730830907/abstract
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Biogeographic patterns of spiders in coastal dunes along a ...
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de JC Carvalho
27 Jan 2011 ... results in a latitudinal climatic gradient of mediterraneity, .... mediterraneity on the assemblage structure of spiders (Fig. 2). ...
www.springerlink.com/index/R7821014034W0642.pdf

Claudia Reynaud
United States
Local time: 08:08
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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