Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

Colorazione

English translation:

colouration

Added to glossary by dandamesh
Feb 10, 2016 08:21
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Italian term

Colorazione

Italian to English Science Medical: Pharmaceuticals
Nel documento che sto traducendo si parla delle varie fasi di lavorazione delle compresse. Una delle fasi descritte e' la "colorazione". Non riesco a capire se e' possibile tradurre tale termine con "coating"oppure se e' corretto utilizzare "coloring". Qualcuno potrebbe consigliarmi?

Grazie in anticipo
Change log

Feb 10, 2016 09:08: Elena Zanetti changed "Language pair" from "English to Italian" to "Italian to English"

Feb 13, 2016 09:53: dandamesh Created KOG entry

Discussion

Joseph Tein Feb 10, 2016:
context Including the complete sentence is a great help in deciding the correct term to use. Even better would be to include the previous sentence and the following sentence. The context often makes a big difference.

Can you post (at least) the complete sentence where this word is used in your document?
Lara Barnett Feb 10, 2016:
-zione Most -zione capped words can be matched to -tion words in English. I always try to follow these sort of language patterns where meaning and usage allows for it. I don't think "coating" would be relevant here anyway.
liz askew Feb 10, 2016:
Have you looked into "staining/dyeing"?

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colouration

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agree Lara Barnett
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coating

ciao, per ora ho trovato coating, che comprende anche il colorante

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http://www.slideshare.net/shafiqueaci/presentation-for-coati...

in questo link il coloring è una sottofase del coating
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colouring

ciao. Effettivamente qui il contesto fa moltissimo per poter arrivare a tradurre nel modo ottimale. Coating è una sorta di "cappottamento" di una superficie, come quando si ricoprono con il catrame i tetti dei garage. Per la colorazione tout court direi piuttosto: colouring
Example sentence:

the process or art of applying colour

Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : Colouration is fine too, but you were first.
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