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Cretaiolo

English translation: clayworker

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Italian term or phrase:cretaiolo
English translation:clayworker
Entered by: martini

18:18 Mar 26, 2024
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Italian term or phrase: Cretaiolo
How to translate "cretaiolo" into English?
"Le botteghe dei cretaioli continuavano la loro produzione che nel Settecento aveva raggiunto momenti di alta ed originale fattura."
toroasz
Albania
clayworker
Explanation:
SCHEDA
Sigec Web
https://sigecweb.beniculturali.it › ICCD14995753
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Dal cappellaccio al tufo c'erano almeno una quindicina di metri che il. "critaloru" (cretaiolo) scavava a "lumi di citalena" con l'aiuto della. "zappudda ...

dal doc sopra si evince che il cretaiolo in realtà era colui che estraeva l'argilla /creta e poi la trasportava
ritengo che nel tuo contesto ci si riferisca genericamente a lavoratori del materiale in generale

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/ma...
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martini
Italy
Local time: 07:17
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Summary of answers provided
3potter
philgoddard
3clayworker
martini


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
cretaiolo
potter


Explanation:
This is just an educated guess, because creta means clay:
http://www.wordreference.com/iten/creta

The context is easy to find online, but the sentences before and after this one don't help - it's just a long list of local industries.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2024-03-26 21:27:26 GMT)
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Bottega + cretaiolo gets ten hits, but all of them are either security risks or require a login. However, several clearly relate to ceramics.
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=ab...


philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 67

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: DeepL goes the ceramics route, fwiw /I did check and am frankly not sure
4 hrs
  -> And does writeaway go the ceramics route, fwiw.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
clayworker


Explanation:
SCHEDA
Sigec Web
https://sigecweb.beniculturali.it › ICCD14995753
PDF
Dal cappellaccio al tufo c'erano almeno una quindicina di metri che il. "critaloru" (cretaiolo) scavava a "lumi di citalena" con l'aiuto della. "zappudda ...

dal doc sopra si evince che il cretaiolo in realtà era colui che estraeva l'argilla /creta e poi la trasportava
ritengo che nel tuo contesto ci si riferisca genericamente a lavoratori del materiale in generale

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/ma...

martini
Italy
Local time: 07:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: I saw this, but it can't be the people who extracted clay here. It says 'la loro produzione aveva raggiunto momenti di alta ed originale fattura.'
4 hrs
  -> l'ho scritto, leggi bene le mie risposte, please, per quello ho suggerito un più generico "clayworker"
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