Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
mamitis
English translation:
tied to mommy's apron strings..
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Lydia De Jorge
Sep 9, 2007 11:24
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Spanish term
mamitis
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Medical (general)
En torno a los 6 meses nuestros niños empiezan a manifestar una cierta "mamitis", un pegarse a la madre que le puede volver también a más edad; es lo que los expertos llaman "síndrome de ansiedad por separación"
¿sabeis de algún termino en inglés para decir "mamitis"?
¿sabeis de algún termino en inglés para decir "mamitis"?
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Sep 10, 2007 18:25: Lydia De Jorge changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/87154">Fuseila's</a> old entry - "mamitis"" to ""tied to mommy's apron strings..""
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Lydia De Jorge
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tied to mommy's apron strings..
this is said of children that are very attached to their mothers..
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Glad I could help!!!
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Glad I could help!!!
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Guadalupe Wells
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very strong attachment of children towards their mothers
"mamitis" is a very informal word to refer to children being to attached to their mothers, however this implies something temporary, for example when there is a new sibbling on the way some children may develop "mamitis", etc. It is a pun, "mamá" plus the suffix "-itis" normally used in several diseades such as hepatitis, apendicitis, etc
Example sentence:
Este niño tiene "mamitis", no suelta a su madre.
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over-attachment (to mother)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:uAn9qbHPWOEJ:www.childa...
From: IN%"[email protected]" "Linda Keeling" 16-DEC-1998 10 ...
In Patrick Pageat's semiology, overattachment is the root of separation anxiety. When we had to do clinical trials for firms, we discussed with some of your ...
www.usask.ca/wcvm/ae/archives/dec16-31.98 - 50k - Cached - Similar pages
Dependency in the personality disorders: Intensity, insight ...
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(Bornstein & Greenberg, 1991) and anxiety disorders (Reich, Noyes, & Troughton, 1987). In .... manifested in two ways: over-attachment and over-separation. ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199802)54:2%3C175::AID-JCLP7%3E3.3.CO;2-4 - Similar pages
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This is NOT a high-register term in English, just the right translation!
From: IN%"[email protected]" "Linda Keeling" 16-DEC-1998 10 ...
In Patrick Pageat's semiology, overattachment is the root of separation anxiety. When we had to do clinical trials for firms, we discussed with some of your ...
www.usask.ca/wcvm/ae/archives/dec16-31.98 - 50k - Cached - Similar pages
Dependency in the personality disorders: Intensity, insight ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
(Bornstein & Greenberg, 1991) and anxiety disorders (Reich, Noyes, & Troughton, 1987). In .... manifested in two ways: over-attachment and over-separation. ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199802)54:2%3C175::AID-JCLP7%3E3.3.CO;2-4 - Similar pages
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This is NOT a high-register term in English, just the right translation!
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| I liked your suggestion but I was looking for something more informal. Thank you, I will keep it in mind. |
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David Russell
: Nice translation
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clingy (adj)
This is not a perfect translation as I don't think one exists.
Around the age of six months children become very clingy...
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I just have to say that over-attachment strike me as much too strong a term for mamitis, considering mamitis is a perfectly natural phenomena that affects most babies at some time or times.
Around the age of six months children become very clingy...
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I just have to say that over-attachment strike me as much too strong a term for mamitis, considering mamitis is a perfectly natural phenomena that affects most babies at some time or times.
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liz askew
: This wouldn't cover it as any child can be described as clingy, without suffering from separation anxiety disorder//Look at the original text - "clingy" does not work here.//"Clingy" is not necessarily a negative term; here "mamitis" is..a sympt. of sep.
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mamitis in Mexico at least, does not necessarily mean separation anxiety disorder
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Carol Gullidge
: clinginess is how I'd put it. It's clearly not supposed to be a "high register" or clinical term.
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Thanks Carol
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