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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

CONSECUTIVO

English translation:

FILE

Added to glossary by James A. Walsh
Jul 5, 2014 21:54
9 yrs ago
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Spanish term

Un consecutivo

Spanish to English Bus/Financial Other General office term
Hi all -

I need to find the right English equivalent for "un consecutivo."

My understanding is that is refers to either a file, a set of files or folder organized in alphabetical order.

I appears at the very bottom of the page, on its own line, as follows in a medical report document I am translating.

CONSECUTIVO: 123456 [ITMS]

(BTW I did see another ProZ entry - "work permit." It would absolutely not fit here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 FILE
Change log

Jul 13, 2014 12:44: James A. Walsh changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1162027">Michael Meskers's</a> old entry - "Un consecutivo"" to ""a file""

Discussion

Michael Meskers (asker) Jul 6, 2014:
I am also uncertain about ITMS but will submit separately of course.
Michael Meskers (asker) Jul 6, 2014:
Interesting discussion... The report is just one page. I have no idea if it is part of something longer. No indication.
I agree that we need a noun. I may have to go with "File" simply because we don't seem to have a single word in English that incorporates the idea of an organized sequence when it comes to there being just one page. If only it were a binder or folder - but it isn't! Alas!
Helena Chavarria Jul 5, 2014:
I've just noticed that in James' reference, the date of the 'informe' is the same on all the pages, but the document number differs, as do the patients. I think I would just write '(successive) page no.'
Helena Chavarria Jul 5, 2014:
I saw 'sequential' and also 'successive', but I don't think they're any better than 'consecutive'. All three words are adjectives and we need a noun.
James A. Walsh Jul 5, 2014:
SEQUENTIAL Very interesting take there, Lorena - love it! ;) A ver...
lorenab23 Jul 5, 2014:
opera1 Is your medical report just one page? or is it more than one page like the reference provided by James. If this is the case I wonder if you could use the word sequential...
James A. Walsh Jul 5, 2014:
I did notice that, Helena... But I don't think that's possible in English (at least in one word), and I think the standard practice is just to say FILE followed by the number obviously, which you can determine is "consecutive" if you look at it and the following numbers (as you and I did). So I think it's futile to try to find a way of expressing this in English, when the number itself will be unique, albeit "consecutive" :)
Helena Chavarria Jul 5, 2014:
The page numbers in James' reference are consecutive (starting at 113388 and finishing with 113397) so I think you need to try and make that clear.

Proposed translations

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Spanish term (edited): CONSECUTIVO
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FILE

Take a look at the first link below (you may need to enlarge it in your browser to read). It's a medical report from ITMS in Colombia. Clearly from the context, we would just say FILE in English. Perhaps FILE NO., but not strictly necessary as a number follows in each example here anyway. So I reckon FILE alone will do it here, as it's clearly just an internal file reference.

Hope this helps.


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Note added at 11 hrs (2014-07-06 08:56:26 GMT)
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Hi Opera, you're welcome. I can only imagine results are not showing up in ProZ because the original questions haven't been categorised correctly perhaps... This has happened me before, too, where I can find results via Google (on ProZ), but not on ProZ itself directly... I guess it's best to just search both.
Reference:

http://dc401.4shared.com/doc/vLA5yfl-/preview.html

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/business_commerce_general/1281496-consecutivo.html

Note from asker:
Hi James - Thanks for the ProZ link which I just looked at - ITMS. Question: would you have any idea when I do a search for ITMS in ProZ I get no answers from my query. I have all categories/glossaries, etc. checked. This is not first time this has happened to me. I often find ProZ links by googling but NOT via searching via ProZ. Any thoughts?
Peer comment(s):
agree Helena Chavarria : I don't know if I agree with 'FILE', but I think your reference is very useful ;-)
52 mins
Thanks, Helena :)
neutral Patrick Weill : I have seen "número consecutivo" before, for which File No. would work
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