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nome de guerra

English translation: code name; fantasy name

15:47 Sep 16, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Names (personal, company)
Portuguese term or phrase: nome de guerra
um codinome usado para esconder a identidade verdadeira de uma pessoa
Maria India
Brazil
Local time: 19:20
English translation:code name; fantasy name
Explanation:
While we use the French "nom de guerre" in English, we don't use it in your context...

adele's space... if it wasnt released on the final fantasy name, people would have loved it in ... two women assasins resurect the code name noir unaware of its true ...
soulgrafitti.spaces.live.com/ - 161k - Cached - Similar pages


Untitled by MarohiThere are several random , fantasy name generators on the net ; some are ... When choosing a code name , find a name or a word that will work with your ...
www.lunaescence.com/fics/viewstory.php?sid=30 - 21k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


%ISOnum; %ISOamso; ]> en Document processing with LyX and SGML A ...... LyX will not allow you to enter a fantasy name in the filename field and, ... eg Utopia, with the code name of the font (for Utopia, "put"). ...
www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/mySGML.sgml - 426k - Cached - Similar pages

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Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:20
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3pseudonym
Will Matter
5 +1nom de guerre
craigs
5code name; fantasy name
Marian Greenfield
5nickname
Carla G..
5war name
Clauwolf
3alias, cover
Norbert Hermann


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
code name; fantasy name


Explanation:
While we use the French "nom de guerre" in English, we don't use it in your context...

adele's space... if it wasnt released on the final fantasy name, people would have loved it in ... two women assasins resurect the code name noir unaware of its true ...
soulgrafitti.spaces.live.com/ - 161k - Cached - Similar pages


Untitled by MarohiThere are several random , fantasy name generators on the net ; some are ... When choosing a code name , find a name or a word that will work with your ...
www.lunaescence.com/fics/viewstory.php?sid=30 - 21k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


%ISOnum; %ISOamso; ]> en Document processing with LyX and SGML A ...... LyX will not allow you to enter a fantasy name in the filename field and, ... eg Utopia, with the code name of the font (for Utopia, "put"). ...
www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/mySGML.sgml - 426k - Cached - Similar pages



Marian Greenfield
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
nickname


Explanation:
:)


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickname
Carla G..
Local time: 23:20
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
pseudonym


Explanation:
This is another option and this option also includes all of the other answers that i've seen so far. There is more than one way to say this in English so lets's look at some examples. For an author a 'nome de guerra' can also be called a 'pen name'. When referring to computer usage it could be called a 'screen name'. The point is, it's a name that someone uses that isn't their real or true name and the English term that covers all of these uses is 'pseudonym'. HTH.

Example sentence(s):
  • His real name was Robert Smith but he wrote several books under the pseudonym "John Gilbey".

    Reference: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/nom%20de%20guerre
Will Matter
United States
Local time: 15:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: I do't think that's quite it, since I'm talking about something that HAS to be kept secret, illegal, even...

Asker: Thank you anyway!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jussi Rosti
7 mins
  -> Kiitos, obrigado, dzienkuje, thanks. Welcome to ProZ.
agree  Marian Greenfield: could be indeed... as you note, all depends on the context... I was thinking of accounts... there are contexts where pseudonym is not the best option...
22 mins
  -> Gracias and thank you.
neutral  Carla G..: it depends on the context, but pseudonym in portuguese is "pseudónimo" (usually used by writers) and not "nome de guerra", which I think is more a "nickname" than a pseudonym
43 mins
  -> OK.
agree  Irina Dicovsky - MD (X): Best option. See Houaiss: n. de guerra: 1 pseudônimo us. pelos maçons em suas reuniões ; 2 pseudônimo ou apelido pelo qual alguém é mais conhecido na sociedade, no meio artístico etc.
7 hrs
  -> Thank you very much. The extra reference is appreciated.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
nom de guerre


Explanation:
In the US, people that want to sound sophisticated use the French. (That is French, right?)

Otherwise just use "pseudonym" or another suitable synonym.

craigs
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henrique Magalhaes
16 hrs
neutral  Will Matter: This term isn't English, it's French (as you point out). Asker is asking for an English *translation*, not a cognate in another Romance language. Nice that your answer contains an addendum that is *identical* to my answer.
1 day 16 hrs
  -> I try to be amicable and magnanimous; had I noticed Marian's, I might not have posted; but I think the Asker deserves to see all appropriate options; if the Asker doesn't know it is an acceptable usage, then soneone should say so
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
war name


Explanation:
:)
Thus in the quotation with which this article opened, the guerrilla chose his name himself, yet he strongly emphasized that his war name was written down. ...
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4106/is_200412/ai_n102... - 30k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes


Mussolini's grandson wants Il Duce exhumed - Boston.com - [ Traduzir esta página ]The accounts name the executioner as the late Walter Audisio, also know by his war name "Colonel Valerio." They say the execution took place at the gates of ...
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/04/mussol... - Páginas Semelhantes


Izumi Ishii - George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843 ... - [ Traduzir esta página ]... and acquire his war name, Yaha (Wolf). Persistent white racism, of which Confederate officers reminded Grayson, reinforced his Creek nationalism. ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/ethnohistory/v048/48.3ishii.html - Páginas Semelhantes



Clauwolf
Local time: 19:20
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
alias, cover


Explanation:
Cover might be a good option here since your def. says "to hide once identity"

alias
2 entries found for Alias.
To select an entry, click on it.
alias[1,adverb]alias[2,noun]

Main Entry: 2alias
Function: noun
: an assumed or additional name


Norbert Hermann
Local time: 23:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
Notes to answerer
Asker: Alias was my very first idea. But I thought it didn't sound very good in the sentence... Thank you very much, though!

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